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Gonzalez, Andrew; Alberca, Wilfredo – 1978
A frequency count was conducted of linguistic features in the English of the Philippine mass media. Philippine English was found to have a smaller inventory of phonological units than Received Standard English. Vowel reduction does not seem to be prevalent. The collapsing of phonological distinctions is most evident in vowels and fricatives.…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Variation
PDF pending restorationGonzalez, Andrew – 1976
Developments in the linguistic and non-linguistic scenes in the Philippines indicate the emergence of a dialect of English that should appropriately be labelled Philippine English. Filipinos paradoxically have emancipated themselves from American English by taking over the code for their own creative uses. Philippine English has become and will…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Creoles
