Anglo-Indian English: A Nativized Variety of Indian English Export

@article{citeulike:3649571, abstract = {The speech of native speakers of Indian English has generally been neglected in studies of English in South Asia. This article describes a variety of Indian English used by a section of the Anglo-Indian community in Madras, South India. A comparison of this variety to available descriptions of "General" or "Educated" Indian English shows that the two are substantially similar, but that the Anglo-Indian variety differs in two features: deletion of/h/ (h-dropping) and the distribution of r-lessness. The community shows class-based variation in the phonological feature of h-dropping and in one syntactic feature: auxiliary movement in questions. Sources for features of Anglo-Indian English are discussed, including possible inheritance from both standard and non-standard BrE dialects as well as transfer from Tamil, the likely substrate Indian language for this section of the Anglo-Indian community.}, author = {Coelho, Gail M.}, citeulike-article-id = {3649571}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4168803}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/4168803}, doi = {10.2307/4168803}, issn = {00474045}, journal = {Language in Society}, keywords = {language}, number = {4}, pages = {561--589}, posted-at = {2008-11-21 15:05:47}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, title = {Anglo-Indian English: A Nativized Variety of Indian English}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4168803}, volume = {26}, year = {1997} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3649571 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3649571 N2 - The speech of native speakers of Indian English has generally been neglected in studies of English in South Asia. This article describes a variety of Indian English used by a section of the Anglo-Indian community in Madras, South India. A comparison of this variety to available descriptions of "General" or "Educated" Indian English shows that the two are substantially similar, but that the Anglo-Indian variety differs in two features: deletion of/h/ (h-dropping) and the distribution of r-lessness. The community shows class-based variation in the phonological feature of h-dropping and in one syntactic feature: auxiliary movement in questions. Sources for features of Anglo-Indian English are discussed, including possible inheritance from both standard and non-standard BrE dialects as well as transfer from Tamil, the likely substrate Indian language for this section of the Anglo-Indian community. IS - 4 JF - Language in Society SN - 00474045 EP - 589 TI - Anglo-Indian English: A Nativized Variety of Indian English PB - Cambridge University Press VL - 26 SP - 561 KW - language AU - Coelho, Gail PY - 1997/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4168803 ER -