Abstract
Drawing upon data from Singapore English (SgE) and Hong Kong English (HKE), this paper demonstrates that coda /l/ geminates and splits into [-wl-] when sandwiched between a short vowel and another vowel. This split-gemination of /l/ is problematic for the currently established conception that geminates share phonological features. To solve this problem, this paper proposes that non-terminal nodes contain phonological information via correspondences to the terminal nodes.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 1112-1121 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Publication status | Published - 21 Jul 2008 |
| Event | 18th International Congress of Linguists - Seoul, Korea Duration: 21 Jul 2008 → 26 Jul 2008 |
Conference
| Conference | 18th International Congress of Linguists |
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| Period | 21/07/08 → 26/07/08 |
User-Defined Keywords
- Inter-tier Correspondence
- L-Gemination
- English
- Singapore
- Hong Kong