Paper on Durational Properties in Varieties of S. African English
Coetzee, Andries W. and Daan Wissing. 2007. Global and local
durational properties in three varieties of South African English. The
Linguistic Review, 24:263-289.
Abstract
This article investigates the relationship between the global and local durational properties of an utterance. We show that languages that are similar in terms of their global durational properties are also similar in terms of their local durational properties. However, languages that differ globally also differ locally. We illustrate this with three varieties of South African English. We show that South African English L1 and Afrikaans English both pattern with stress-timed languages and both apply phrase-final lengthening. Tswana English, however, patterns with syllable-timed languages, and does not apply phrase-final lengthening.
And about Andries’ co-author
Daan Wissing was my first linguistics professor — from the North-West University in South Africa. I had one semester, similar to our Ling 111, from him when I was an undergrad. Since then, he and I have worked together on several projects. This paper
marks the completion of a project that has been in the making for several
years.