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... SSLE as in the dental fricatives / 8 / and / o / being realized as dental plosives in SSLE and the labio - dental fricative / v / being realized as the labio - dental approximant / v / in SSLE . SBE also has the voiced palatal fricative ...
... SSLE as in the dental fricatives / 8 / and / o / being realized as dental plosives in SSLE and the labio - dental fricative / v / being realized as the labio - dental approximant / v / in SSLE . SBE also has the voiced palatal fricative ...
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... SSLE , are : one phoneme / u / for ' w ' and ' v ' , the dental stops for dental fricatives , the retroflex stops for alveolar stops , and non - aspiration of voiceless stops . These are characteristics of both SSLE and ' Not pot ...
... SSLE , are : one phoneme / u / for ' w ' and ' v ' , the dental stops for dental fricatives , the retroflex stops for alveolar stops , and non - aspiration of voiceless stops . These are characteristics of both SSLE and ' Not pot ...
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... SSLE which the speaker of ' Not pot English ' has no access to . Wealth is not associated with proficiency in SSLE , in fact speakers of SSLE pride themselves with being the ' old rich ' rather than the ' new rich . ' The social ...
... SSLE which the speaker of ' Not pot English ' has no access to . Wealth is not associated with proficiency in SSLE , in fact speakers of SSLE pride themselves with being the ' old rich ' rather than the ' new rich . ' The social ...
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Acknowledgments | 7 |
Elitist English | 33 |
Mixing Languages | 49 |
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abbreviation accent adjective associated become bilingual borrowing from Sinhalese borrowing from Tamil British British English Buddhist called caste characteristic close colloquial Colombo colonial compound noun considered culture derogatory describe discussion Dutch elite English in Sri English word ethnic example expression front given Glossary going governance identity included influence Jaffna kind language linguistic looks majority Malay marker Michigan mixing morphological Muslim native official official language originally person phrase political Portuguese Professor refers reflects represents rice round sari schools served similar Sinhala Sinhalese and Tamil Sinhalese means Sinhalese word social society speak speakers speech Sri Lankan English SSLE Standard suffix sweet Table Tamil term thing traditional transfer translation University usually variety of English verb vowel women writing