This study is concerned with the occasional lack of verbal past tense marking in Singapore English, which has been described both as evidence for morphological change and as a phonological consequence of final plosive deletion. Based on a corpus of spoken educated Singapore English, it is investigated whether the lack of past tense marking in verbs in a past tense context is due primarily to morphological or phonological factors and whether word frequency influences the rate of past tense marking. The results are interpreted as evidence for a phonological basis of most unmarked verb forms in Singapore English and suggest a shift in the function of the present tense. They further imply that past tense marking in Singapore English varies with sociolinguistic factors.
2019. Attitudes and exposure as predictors of -t/d deletion among local and expatriate children in Singapore. Language Variation and Change 31:3 ► pp. 251 ff.
SUÁREZ-GÓMEZ, CRISTINA
2019. The coding of perfect meaning in African, Asian and Caribbean Englishes. English Language and Linguistics 23:3 ► pp. 509 ff.
Tai, Hsuan-Yu
2019. Investigation into Tense-Aspect Patterns of Chinese ELF Academic Writing—a Variationist’s Approach. English Teaching & Learning 43:3 ► pp. 277 ff.
EDWARDS, JETTE G. HANSEN
2016. The deletion of /t, d/ in Hong Kong English. World Englishes 35:1 ► pp. 60 ff.
2014. Transforming Southeast Asian language habitats. World Englishes 33:4 ► pp. 512 ff.
Ming Lai, Eric Yong, Liling Tan, Vincent Wong, Lenny Teng Tao Loke & Francis Bond
2013. The OPT-ional Phenomenon in Singapore English: A Corpus-based Approach Using Time Annotated Corpora. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 95 ► pp. 431 ff.
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