Singapore English

Abstract

Singapore English is one of the best-researched varieties of English in Asia, given E. L. Low's calculation that at that time there were over 200 studies of various aspects of Singapore English, and many more have been published since then. This chapter provides a snapshot of what Singapore English is. It gives a description of Singapore's past around the turn of the twenty-first century, which is characterized by the type of superdiversity reported by present-day scholars working on Europe, to show a form of “reverse-superdiversity” at work in the past five decades which has resulted in transforming present-day Singapore into a country where English holds the predominant place in the linguistic repertoire of all Singaporeans. Singapore English has been said to have phonological features that are more similar to British than to American English. The development of Singapore's bilingual education originated during colonial rule.

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