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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
