Aspects of Cameroon Francophone English (CamFE) Phonology

Textuality of Idiomatic Expressions in Cameroon English

The meaning of an idiomatic expression cannot be transparently worked out from the meanings of its constituent words due to its figurative and unpredictable nature. Consequently, the syntactic composition and the structural paradigm of an idiomatic expression are supposed to be the same in every context. However, this is not the case in the institutionalized second language varieties of English...

Seminar on English Phonology

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Graded Constraints in English Phonology

Phonology in new varieties of English: Hong Kong English diphthongs

Studies of vowels in Hong Kong English (HKE) have revealed that it has diphthongs which are not dissimilar from British English (BrE). However, impressionistically, diphthongs in HKE can and do sound different. This paper looks at two perceptual phenomena: monophthongisation of GOAT; and coda consonant loss in words containing closing diphthongs followed by a geminate alveolar plosive. We indic...

Lexical Phonology and the History of English