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       Liwen Huang
       ENG101-01N
   Instructor: Brian Ray
University of North Carolina
      at Greensboro




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      When Singaporeans speak English
      Just forget about grammar and pronunciation for a while
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        Introduction
        Some background
        Singapore is a Southeast            However, when people go to
    Asian country and his official       Singapore, they found they
    language is English. Besides         could not understand what
    that, 75% of Singaporean is          Singaporeans talked about
    Chinese, so the majority of them     actually. How come that
    can speak Chinese, including         happened? At first, let us listen
    Mandarin, Cantonese and              to a Singaporean speak English.
    Hokkien Chinese. On the other        SIMI IPhone4S in Singapore.
    hand, Singaporeans usually           After listening to this audio
    speak English in their daily lives   online, could you understand
    and they do not think they have      what they said and how much
    a strange accent when they           could you understand?
    speak English.
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When
                                                                                               Singaporean
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                                                                                                   English
    What and Why Singlish?
       First and foremost, Singapore English,        and they bring the Malaysian English to the Singapore
     Singlish, has six main parts, which are         English. In recent year, Singapore has a strong
     English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien,          economic relationship with the U.S., so the
     Malaysian, and Indian languages. Singlish       Singaporean learn a lot of American English and use it
     is an English-based creole language, which to the daily life. All of them cause the Singlish has
     is a kind of creole language. After that, the   different characteristics from diverse languages all
     creole language “is a stable natural            over the world and this unique phenomenon of
     language developed from the mixing of           Singlish becomes a unique character of Singapore. As
     parent languages; creoles differ from           everyone knows that Singapore is not only an
     pidgins (which are believed by scholars to International trading and financial, but also a tourist
     be necessary precedents of creoles) in          country. Moreover, Singapore is a multicultural
     that they have been nativized by children       country, which has many different races.
     as their primary language, making them          Consequently, many tourists come to Singapore
     have features of natural languages that         because they are attracted by the unique situation of
     are normally missing from pidgins”              cross culture of Singapore, especially the language.
     (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_lan        Demonstrating this point, Lubna Alsagoff observes
     guage).                                         that ‘English, although one language, has many voices
       Before talking about Singlish, people         in order to realize ‘different cultural ways of thinking
     have to know about their history.               and behaving, characteristic of the Singaporean
     Singapore was the colony of British from        experience’ (see also Bhatt 2005: 25)’” (342).
     1819 to 1965. Therefore, during that            Additionally, Singlish is not only a branch of Standard
     period, the standard official language is       English, but also a bridge, which connect with
     British English. Moreover, most of              different languages and cultures because Singlish
     Singaporeans are the immigration from           commixes English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien,
     China, so they speak English with Chinese       Malaysian and Indian languages and all of these
     slang and accents more or less. Besides         people can understand and communicate with others
     that, few decades years ago, Singapore          by Singlish. Therefore, as Lee Kuan Yew, former Prime
     was combined with Malaysia. As a result,        Minister of Singapore, said, “today the lingua franca is
     many Malaysians immigrate to Singapore          English, or Singlish (Lee 2005)” (342).

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    The Grammar of Singlish
          At first, the grammar of Singlish does not have so               3.   Here it is the slowness of the printer
    many differences between the standard English, but it                       that is tropicalized (6).
    absorbs Chinese and other languages grammar more            Another common grammar of Singlish is “Copula-
    or less because of multicultural situation.                 deletion (6)”, which means that in some situations, the
        The most frequent situation of Singlish grammar is      copula verb is disappeared in Singlish conversation.
    topic-prominence, which is “the topic of the sentence       For understanding this point, Jakob R. E. Leimgruber
    at the beginning of the sentence” (5). This kind of         made some examples.
    grammar is from Chinese and Malay (Tan 2003). For                      1.   That boat ∅ very short one. (iii.C.2.f)

    easy understanding, this is an example from Tan.                       2.   My uncle ∅ staying there. (ii.M.1.m)

                1.   Zh`e bˇen shu ̄ woˇ qu` nia ́n du ́-guo.              3.   What ∅ your dialect? Panjabi? (ii.I.1.m)
                     这本书我去年读过。                                             4.   The place ∅ called Sungei Buloh.
                     This clf book 1sg last year read-exp                       (iii.M.gr)
                     ‘I read this book last year.’ (Tan 2003:   This unique grammar, using in English, is from
                     6)(5)                                      Mandarin. Mandarin does not use copula verb. As a
    Besides that, not only noun phrase can be the topic in      result, when Singaporeans speak English in their daily
    Singlish. For instance,                                     lives, they usually ignore the copula verb.
                2.   Too slow lah, I find that printer. (Bao
                     and Lye 2005: 279)



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SSB (Standard Southern British)

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                                                                     aCADemy acaDEMic
                                                                     eCONomy aCADemy

Pronunciation                                               SEP (Singapore English Pronunciation)
                                                                         eCONonomic

of Singlish                                      aCADemic(DAVID DETERDING and ROBERT HVITFELDT, 1994).

                                  Additionally, in Singapore, people usually emphasize ‘I’, ‘you’, and ‘me’ in one sentence.
                                  In some cases, they are stressed in ‘have’ in conversation.
      Besides the grammar
                                  Finally, the third distinction is vowels. In Singlish, it does have long and short vowels.
differences, there is another
                                  As a result,
unforgettable difference
                                                     seat/sit   cart/cut caught/cot fool/full bed/bad
between Standard English
                                  these five pairs of words have same pronunciation in Singapore English (DAVID
and Singapore English. It is
                                  DETERDING and ROBERT HVITFELDT, 1994).
the pronunciations of
Singlish. There is an audio of
Singlish chat and could you
find out what are
pronunciation differences
between Singlish and
English? Singlish on chat.
      The first main
distinction of pronunciations
of Singlish is consonant.
Generally, the Singaporean
changes the voiceless
consonant to the voice
consonant. For instance, the
pronunciation of „curry‟ in
Standard English is /ˈkʌri/,
but in the Singlish the
pronunciation changes to
/ˈgʌri/. Furthermore, in
Singlish, „three‟ and „tree‟
have same pronunciation and
“„then‟ has the same sound as
„den‟” (DAVID
DETERDING and ROBERT
HVITFELDT, 1994).
   After that, the second
difference is stress situation
in Singlish. In this part, some
examples will make it clearer
and easier to understand.

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    Singlish, a unique cultural identity
     When Singaporeans speak English




        Although English-speakers,              Moreover, Singlish is like a            However, now he is very worried
    like British and Americans, could       bridge, connecting different races     about he cannot do anything in the
    not understand Singlish when they       people, because it has so many         U.S. when he visit and look after me,
    first visit Singapore or speak to       elements of diverse languages. If      because little American understand
    Singaporeans and at the same time,      your English is not good as a native   Mandarin.
    the Singapore government                speaker, you do not need to worry           Furthermore, every Singaporean
    encourages his citizens to speak        about that you cannot communicate      can understand more than one
    Standard English, Singlish is still     with Singaporeans. It is because       language, so it is very helpful when
    the most popular language in            that you can add Mandarin or           they do global business. Nowadays,
    Singapore. This fact shows that         Cantonese in your English              globalization is a main trend all over
    Singlish is not only a branch of        conversation. It makes a great         the world and owning a bilingual skill
    English, but also a unique cultural     number of tourists feel comfortable    is very significant. Therefore, it causes
    identity of Singapore. Even though,     and convenient when they visit         that Singaporean has a very strong
    Singapore has cleanest streets,         Singapore. For instance, when the      superiority when they compete with
    luxury shopping malls, and              author’s father went to Singapore,     others in the international market.
    wonderful tourist attraction,           he could talk with local people in
    Sentosa, it has Singlish, which is an   simple English and Mandarin.
    unforgettable point of Singapore.
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Conclusion
When Singaporean speak English




                                     When Singaporeans speak English, it is hard to understand, but

                                 this phenomenon is the one of their cultural characters. Singapore

                                 English has its own specialties like grammar and pronunciation rules.

                                 When people listen to the Singlish, they would think this language is

                                 really funny and unique. Someone may believe that Singlish is not a

                                 language strictly because it just mixes several different languages.

                                 Nevertheless, precisely because of mixes from different languages, it

                                 brings Singapore a unique attractive point to everyone from every

                                 country and almost everyone could communicate with others in

                                 Singlish. On the street, in Singapore, people could find diverse races

                                 people live and work together very well and happy. It shows that

                                 Singlish has its unique influences to the Singapore.

                                                                   Reference

                                 Creole language, Retrieved from

                                         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_language

                                 DAVID DETERDING and ROBERT HVITFELDT, The Features of

                                         Singapore English Pronunciation: Implications for Teachers,

                                         Teaching and Learning, 1994, Vol 15, No 1, pp. 98-107.

                                 LUBNA ALSAGOFF, English in Singapore: culture, capital and identity

                                         in linguistic variation, World Englishes, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 336–

                                         348, 2010.
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                                                 When
                                             Singaporeans
                                             speak English




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Liwen Huang
ENG101-01N

Instructor: Brian Ray

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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  • 1. + Liwen Huang ENG101-01N Instructor: Brian Ray University of North Carolina at Greensboro + When Singaporeans speak English Just forget about grammar and pronunciation for a while
  • 2. + Introduction Some background Singapore is a Southeast However, when people go to Asian country and his official Singapore, they found they language is English. Besides could not understand what that, 75% of Singaporean is Singaporeans talked about Chinese, so the majority of them actually. How come that can speak Chinese, including happened? At first, let us listen Mandarin, Cantonese and to a Singaporean speak English. Hokkien Chinese. On the other SIMI IPhone4S in Singapore. hand, Singaporeans usually After listening to this audio speak English in their daily lives online, could you understand and they do not think they have what they said and how much a strange accent when they could you understand? speak English. 2
  • 3. When Singaporean + speak English What and Why Singlish? First and foremost, Singapore English, and they bring the Malaysian English to the Singapore Singlish, has six main parts, which are English. In recent year, Singapore has a strong English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, economic relationship with the U.S., so the Malaysian, and Indian languages. Singlish Singaporean learn a lot of American English and use it is an English-based creole language, which to the daily life. All of them cause the Singlish has is a kind of creole language. After that, the different characteristics from diverse languages all creole language “is a stable natural over the world and this unique phenomenon of language developed from the mixing of Singlish becomes a unique character of Singapore. As parent languages; creoles differ from everyone knows that Singapore is not only an pidgins (which are believed by scholars to International trading and financial, but also a tourist be necessary precedents of creoles) in country. Moreover, Singapore is a multicultural that they have been nativized by children country, which has many different races. as their primary language, making them Consequently, many tourists come to Singapore have features of natural languages that because they are attracted by the unique situation of are normally missing from pidgins” cross culture of Singapore, especially the language. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_lan Demonstrating this point, Lubna Alsagoff observes guage). that ‘English, although one language, has many voices Before talking about Singlish, people in order to realize ‘different cultural ways of thinking have to know about their history. and behaving, characteristic of the Singaporean Singapore was the colony of British from experience’ (see also Bhatt 2005: 25)’” (342). 1819 to 1965. Therefore, during that Additionally, Singlish is not only a branch of Standard period, the standard official language is English, but also a bridge, which connect with British English. Moreover, most of different languages and cultures because Singlish Singaporeans are the immigration from commixes English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, China, so they speak English with Chinese Malaysian and Indian languages and all of these slang and accents more or less. Besides people can understand and communicate with others that, few decades years ago, Singapore by Singlish. Therefore, as Lee Kuan Yew, former Prime was combined with Malaysia. As a result, Minister of Singapore, said, “today the lingua franca is many Malaysians immigrate to Singapore English, or Singlish (Lee 2005)” (342). 3
  • 4. + The Grammar of Singlish At first, the grammar of Singlish does not have so 3. Here it is the slowness of the printer many differences between the standard English, but it that is tropicalized (6). absorbs Chinese and other languages grammar more Another common grammar of Singlish is “Copula- or less because of multicultural situation. deletion (6)”, which means that in some situations, the The most frequent situation of Singlish grammar is copula verb is disappeared in Singlish conversation. topic-prominence, which is “the topic of the sentence For understanding this point, Jakob R. E. Leimgruber at the beginning of the sentence” (5). This kind of made some examples. grammar is from Chinese and Malay (Tan 2003). For 1. That boat ∅ very short one. (iii.C.2.f)
 easy understanding, this is an example from Tan. 2. My uncle ∅ staying there. (ii.M.1.m)
 1. Zh`e bˇen shu ̄ woˇ qu` nia ́n du ́-guo. 3. What ∅ your dialect? Panjabi? (ii.I.1.m) 这本书我去年读过。 4. The place ∅ called Sungei Buloh. This clf book 1sg last year read-exp (iii.M.gr) ‘I read this book last year.’ (Tan 2003: This unique grammar, using in English, is from 6)(5) Mandarin. Mandarin does not use copula verb. As a Besides that, not only noun phrase can be the topic in result, when Singaporeans speak English in their daily Singlish. For instance, lives, they usually ignore the copula verb. 2. Too slow lah, I find that printer. (Bao and Lye 2005: 279) 4
  • 5. SSB (Standard Southern British) + eCONomy ecoNOMic aCADemy acaDEMic eCONomy aCADemy Pronunciation SEP (Singapore English Pronunciation) eCONonomic of Singlish aCADemic(DAVID DETERDING and ROBERT HVITFELDT, 1994). Additionally, in Singapore, people usually emphasize ‘I’, ‘you’, and ‘me’ in one sentence. In some cases, they are stressed in ‘have’ in conversation. Besides the grammar Finally, the third distinction is vowels. In Singlish, it does have long and short vowels. differences, there is another As a result, unforgettable difference seat/sit cart/cut caught/cot fool/full bed/bad between Standard English these five pairs of words have same pronunciation in Singapore English (DAVID and Singapore English. It is DETERDING and ROBERT HVITFELDT, 1994). the pronunciations of Singlish. There is an audio of Singlish chat and could you find out what are pronunciation differences between Singlish and English? Singlish on chat. The first main distinction of pronunciations of Singlish is consonant. Generally, the Singaporean changes the voiceless consonant to the voice consonant. For instance, the pronunciation of „curry‟ in Standard English is /ˈkʌri/, but in the Singlish the pronunciation changes to /ˈgʌri/. Furthermore, in Singlish, „three‟ and „tree‟ have same pronunciation and “„then‟ has the same sound as „den‟” (DAVID DETERDING and ROBERT HVITFELDT, 1994). After that, the second difference is stress situation in Singlish. In this part, some examples will make it clearer and easier to understand. 5
  • 6. + Singlish, a unique cultural identity When Singaporeans speak English Although English-speakers, Moreover, Singlish is like a However, now he is very worried like British and Americans, could bridge, connecting different races about he cannot do anything in the not understand Singlish when they people, because it has so many U.S. when he visit and look after me, first visit Singapore or speak to elements of diverse languages. If because little American understand Singaporeans and at the same time, your English is not good as a native Mandarin. the Singapore government speaker, you do not need to worry Furthermore, every Singaporean encourages his citizens to speak about that you cannot communicate can understand more than one Standard English, Singlish is still with Singaporeans. It is because language, so it is very helpful when the most popular language in that you can add Mandarin or they do global business. Nowadays, Singapore. This fact shows that Cantonese in your English globalization is a main trend all over Singlish is not only a branch of conversation. It makes a great the world and owning a bilingual skill English, but also a unique cultural number of tourists feel comfortable is very significant. Therefore, it causes identity of Singapore. Even though, and convenient when they visit that Singaporean has a very strong Singapore has cleanest streets, Singapore. For instance, when the superiority when they compete with luxury shopping malls, and author’s father went to Singapore, others in the international market. wonderful tourist attraction, he could talk with local people in Sentosa, it has Singlish, which is an simple English and Mandarin. unforgettable point of Singapore. 6
  • 7. + Conclusion When Singaporean speak English When Singaporeans speak English, it is hard to understand, but this phenomenon is the one of their cultural characters. Singapore English has its own specialties like grammar and pronunciation rules. When people listen to the Singlish, they would think this language is really funny and unique. Someone may believe that Singlish is not a language strictly because it just mixes several different languages. Nevertheless, precisely because of mixes from different languages, it brings Singapore a unique attractive point to everyone from every country and almost everyone could communicate with others in Singlish. On the street, in Singapore, people could find diverse races people live and work together very well and happy. It shows that Singlish has its unique influences to the Singapore. Reference Creole language, Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_language DAVID DETERDING and ROBERT HVITFELDT, The Features of Singapore English Pronunciation: Implications for Teachers, Teaching and Learning, 1994, Vol 15, No 1, pp. 98-107. LUBNA ALSAGOFF, English in Singapore: culture, capital and identity in linguistic variation, World Englishes, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 336– 348, 2010. 7
  • 8. + When Singaporeans speak English + Liwen Huang ENG101-01N Instructor: Brian Ray University of North Carolina at Greensboro