Holman Tse
List of John Benjamins publications for which Holman Tse plays a role.
Articles
2022 Chapter 5. What can Cantonese heritage speakers tell us about age of acquisition, linguistic dominance, and sociophonetic variation? Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Bayley, Robert, Dennis R. Preston and Xiaoshi Li (eds.), pp. 97–126 | Chapter
For many individuals, the first acquired language is also the linguistically dominant language, but what are the implications for sociophonetic variation if the linguistically dominant language is a second acquired childhood language, as is the case for many heritage speakers? This chapter… read more
2019 Vowel shifts in Cantonese? Toronto vs. Hong Kong Regional Chinese in Contact, Walker, James A. (ed.), pp. 67–83 | Article
This paper addresses Labov’s principles of vowel chain shifting in Toronto and Hong Kong Cantonese based on sociolinguistic interviews from the Heritage Language Variation and Change in Toronto Project. The analysis is based on normalized F1 and F2 values of 33,179 vowel tokens from 11… read more
2016 Variation and change in Toronto heritage Cantonese: An analysis of two monophthongs across two generations Asia-Pacific Language Variation 2:2, pp. 124–156 | Article
This paper presents the first sociophonetic study of Cantonese vowels using sociolinguistic interview data from the Heritage Language Variation and Change in Toronto Corpus. It focuses on four allophones [iː], [ɪk/ɪŋ], [uː], and [ʊk/ʊŋ] of two contrastive vowels /iː/ and /uː/ across two… read more