Cape Flats English: phonology

Cape Flats English (CFE) originated in working class neighborhoods in innercity Cape Town. However, as a result of Apartheid social engineering, most of its speakers now live far from the city centre in a number of adjoining areas collectively known as ‘The Cape Flats’. (The name refers to a large, flat, sandy expanse bordered by mountain ranges and the sea.).

 

This variety of English is also sometimes called ‘Colored English’ but that term is problematic for two reasons. Firstly, it is an over-generalization: not all people who were classified as ‘Colored’ during the Apartheid era speak this dialect since they are not homogenous with regard to region and social class. Secondly, the term ‘Colored’ as a descriptor is not universally accepted by those to whom it has been applied. From the mid 19^th century, it was used to refer to people of mixed Asian, African, and European ancestry. A hundred years later, it was assigned by the Apartheid government to people who did not fit its two major population categories: ‘European’ or ‘white’, and ‘Bantu’ or ’black’. It was thus a catch-all category for people who did not constitute a group on any intrinsic grounds of shared ethnicity, culture or region. For this reason ‘colored identity’ is still a hotly debated concept. However, segregation did create some common ground which is of sociolinguistic significance because it minimized the possibility of intensive contact with speakers of other varieties of English. Members of each official population group were forced to spend most of their lives together in segregated residential areas, educational, leisure and other institutions.

الاكثر قراءة في Phonology

Minimal pairs and sets

Aspiration

Assimilations

Phones and allophones

Feature geometry

The Sonority Sequencing Generalization

Finding the underlying form

Bukusu: nasal+consonant combinations

The Northern Cities Shift

Major class features

Standard lexical sets

Allophony in other languages

Place of articulation

Natural classes

Dissimilation

اخر الاخبار

اخبار العتبة العباسية المقدسة

المجمع العلمي يواصل إقامة مسابقة الثقلين القرآنية لطلبة مدارس كربلاء

عضو مجلس إدارة العتبة العباسية المقدسة يطلع على آليات تطوير البرامج التعليمية في مجموعة العميد

مجموعة مناحل الكفيل تختتم مشاركتها في معرض السليمانية الدولي للزراعة والصناعات الغذائية

لتوثيق التراث العلمي.. وفد قسم شؤون المعارف يلتقي عددًا من أعلام مدينة النجف

المزيد

الآخبار الصحية

ثورة طبية.. الذكاء الاصطناعي يكشف سرطان الكلى في وقت قياسي

لتعزيز الطاقة والتغلب على التعب.. عليك بـ7 طرق بسيطة

لتحسين الهضم والتحكم في الشهية.. ما أفضل وقت لتناول التمر؟

خبراء يكشفون تأثير الاستحمام في الظلام على جودة النوم !

المزيد

الآخبار التكنلوجية

إزالة ثاني أكسيد الكربون من الغلاف الجوي.. ما دور المحيطات والبحار؟

نظائر الهيليوم مقياس لاكتشاف رواسب الذهب.. كيف ذلك؟

الصين تطلق أول ناقلة نفط خام ذكية في العالم تعمل بالميثانول

الزمن على المريخ أسرع من الأرض.. دراسة علمية تكشف الفوارق

المزيد

مواضيع ذات صلة

Spelling and Pronunciation SUMMARY

American English vs. British English

Morphological Basis of English Spelling

Phoneme–Grapheme Correspondences in English Vowels

Phoneme–Grapheme Correspondences in English Consonants

Spelling and Pronunciation Irregularity of English Spelling

Structural Factors in Second Language Phonology SUMMARY

Perception

Optimality Theory (OT)

Ontogeny Phylogeny Model (OPM)

Markedness

Hypercontrast