{"product_id":"9783659627583","title":"Tamil\/Other Variety of Sri Lankan English speech communities : Incorporating Tamil English to the Taxonomy of Sri Lankan English pronunciation (2014. 316 S. 220 mm)","description":"\u003cp\u003e§16§This book examines dialectal variation in Sri Lankan English (SLE) pronunciation through a taxonomic vantage where the architecture is scrutinized through deviations in lexical pronunciation. The status of Tamil English is examined and empirical validation is procured for its recognition as a separate entity in the taxonomy of SLE pronunciation. This validation is constructed through the analysis of the % rate of occurrence of 10 pronunciation characteristics unique in Tamil\/Other Variety of Sri Lankan English (T\/OVSLE) bilinguals. These features deviate from Standard Sri Lankan English (SSLE) as well as the pronunciation of Sinhala\/Other Variety of Sri Lankan English (S\/OVSLE) bilinguals. 486 participants selected through stratified random sampling measures provide data across an instrument of 50 word tokens. The word tokens represent 7 common areas of pronunciation and 10 unique to T\/OVSLE bilinguals and were randomly shortlisted from literature on SLE and learner English pronun §16§ciation of bilinguals with Tamil as their first language. Analyzed data evidences a zero occurrence of the 10 features unique to T\/OVSLE bilinguals in lexical elicitations of the S\/OVSLE population.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LAP LAMBERT ACADEMIC PUBLISHING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48779604492523,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":126.37,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9783659627583-1.jpg?v=1781727996","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/zh\/products\/9783659627583","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}