Tony T.N. Hung
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tony T.N. Hung plays a role.
Articles
2012 Chapter 7. Hong Kong English English in Southeast Asia: Features, policy and language in use, Low, Ee-Ling and Azirah Hashim (eds.), pp. 113–134 | Chapter
The status of Hong Kong English (henceforth HKE) as a ‘variety’ is still open to question, between a ‘nascent’ variety of English and a fully-fledged one. The phonology of HKE exhibits a smaller set of vowel and consonant contrasts than native varieties and other notable features include: initial… read more
2009 Innovation in second language phonology: Evidence from Hong Kong English World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference, Hoffmann, Thomas and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 227–238 | Article
The paper investigates a number of phonological features in Hong Kong English which appear to be ‘innovative’ in the sense that they are attributable to neither the learner’s first language (Cantonese) nor the target language (English), nor to current second-language acquisition theories. These… read more