Chinglish

[Neal Whitman]

Now at Literal-Minded:
http://literalminded.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/engma-enigma/.

Links of interest (also in post):

2007 Phonoloblog post by Eric Bakovic on native-speaker intuitions, hearing
pre-engma [I] as [i]:
http://camba.ucsd.edu/blog/phonoloblog/2007/06/19/evening/

Paper by David Peterson, on pre-velar tensing of front vowels (even more so
than with other speakers) among Southern California speakers:
http://dedalvs.free.fr/writing/dpetersoncomps.pdf

Neal

Neal Whitman
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