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Direct linkFarrell, Thomas S. C.; Kun, Serena Tan Kiat – Applied Linguistics, 2008
The widespread use of a local variety of English, Singapore Colloquial English, or Singlish, has become somewhat of a controversial issue in Singapore especially in the eyes of the Singapore government. For example, in 2002 the Singapore government launched The "Speak Good English Movement" (SGEM) with the objective of promoting the use…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Language Planning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedOsburne, Andrea G. – Applied Linguistics, 1996
Examines one aspect of second-language syllable structure, syllable-final clusters, in the English of a Vietnamese first-language speaker. The article shows that errors apparently not due to native-language influence can be so attributed using the cluster reduction rule, that the position of a reduced consonant can be predicted based on…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Case Studies, Cluster Grouping, Consonants
