Abstract
ABSTRACTThis article explores the prosodic marking of questions in Brunei English. Ten ethnically Malay female speakers of Brunei English were recorded doing a Map Task in pairs. From these dialogues, 94 questions were identified and classified according to their syntactic and functional type. Their nuclear pitch movement and overall intonation contour was determined auditorily and pitch alignment for rising nuclei was measured acoustically. The results show that the Brunei speakers of English use systematic prosodic marking of different syntactic and functional types of question that differs from British English usage. No evidence for an influence of their L1 Malay prosodic patterns was found. Differences from question intonation produced by Malaysian and Singaporean speakers of English are explained by the Brunei speakers’ different norm orientation.
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