An Overview of Hong Kong English

• 作者: 廖燕莲
• 来源期刊: 海外英语
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: Hong Kong ENGLISH LINGUISTIC features VOWEL and CONSONANT system CODE-MIXING CODE-SWITCHING
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（18）
• 页码范围: 266-269
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: H310.9

摘要

The discussion of HKE’s(Hong Kong English)origin,linguistic features,language planning policies and status aims to present a general overview of HKE.Through literature reviewing,it is found that HKE has simpler vowel system and smaller num ber of vowel contrasts,all fricatives are voiceless for most HKE speakers,HKE speaker like to simplify the final consonant clusters or omit the final consonant,the subject of a relative clause is usually missing in the‘zero’-subject relatives,code-mixing,codeswitching and the direct translation(from Cantonese into English or the directive translation of the sound of load-words)are popu lar in HKE speakers’speech,and HKE enjoys the status of second language in Hong Kong,etc.