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Peer reviewedTent, Jan – Language Variation and Change, 2001
Discusses one pronunciation feature shared by the vast majority of speakers of English in Fiji: the deletion of yod in non-primary stressed /Cju/ syllables. Considers variation in yod pronunciation according to ethnicity, age, gender, and education and examines whether yod deletion is a phonological shibboleth of Fiji English or merely a feature…
Descriptors: Age, English (Second Language), Ethnicity, Foreign Countries
