2025-08-29
[Phon Brown Bag] Sibilant systems in contact: Language variation among Cantonese-English bilinguals in Hong Kong, by Dr. Jonathan Havenhill
Title: Sibilant systems in contact: Language variation among Cantonese-English bilinguals in Hong Kong Speaker:Dr. Jonathan Havenhill (The University of Hong Kong) Time:9/12(Fri.) 12:10 – 13:10 Place:人社二館207教室 Abstract: In this talk, I present new articulatory and acoustic data addressing language acquisition, contact, and change among Cantonese-English bilinguals in Hong Kong. The focus is on the production of the Cantonese sibilants /s, ts, tsʰ/ and the English sibilants /s, ʃ, tʃ, dʒ/. Descriptive work has suggested that Cantonese /s, ts, tsʰ/ exhibit vowel-conditioned and interspeaker variability, with experimental studies finding gradient rather than categorical […]