Nursing the cure: A phonetic analysis of /ʊə/ in South African English

This article is focused on providing the results of a partially impressionistic and partially acoustic phonetic analysis of the CURE vowel (i.e. /ʊə/ as in cure, tour, sure) in South African English (SAfE) and, in particular, in the main first-language (L1) sociolect of this Southern Hemisphere vari...

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Main Author: Bekker, Ian
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Stellenbosch University 2013-12-01
Series:Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus
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Online Access:https://spilplus.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/168