Jane Setter

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jane Setter is involved.

Setter, Jane 2023 Review of Salomone (2022): The rise of English: Global politics and the power of language Language Problems and Language Planning 47:3, pp. 312–315 | Review

Hudson, Toby, Jane Setter and Peggy P.K. Mok 2022 English intonation in storytelling: A comparison of the recognition and production of nuclear tones by British and Hong Kong English speakers English World-Wide 43:3, pp. 357–381 | Article

This paper presents data for a tightly controlled recognition and production study of English language intonation in reading by speakers of British English and second language learners of English in Hong Kong. We demonstrate a relatively high correlation between the scores for the two studies… read more

Mat Nayan, Noor and Jane Setter 2016 Malay English intonation: The Cooperative Rise English World-Wide 37:3, pp. 293–322 | Article

This paper presents the findings of a study on the intonational features in ten proficient Malay Speakers of English (MSEs), focusing on a distinct rising tone (the Cooperative Rise, CR). Using Brazil’s (1985) Discourse Intonation as a framework for analysis, the CR discourse function differs… read more

Peng, Long and Jane Setter 2000 The emergence of systematicity in the English pronunciations of two Cantonese-speaking adults in Hong Kong English World-Wide 21:1, pp. 81–108 | Article

This paper describes and analyses the phenomenon of consonant cluster simplification in the English of two native Cantonese speakers in Hong Kong. We show that this process is systematic in that it targets the alveolar plosives and removes them when they are members of a coda consonant cluster in… read more