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.
The discussion of HKE’s(Hong Kong English) origin, linguistic features, language planning policies and status aims topresent 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 clustersor omit the final consonant, the subject of a relative clause is usually missing in the‘zero’-subject relatives, code-mixing, code-switching 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.
出处
《海外英语》
2019年第18期266-269,共4页
Overseas English
