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Wee, Lionel – World Englishes, 2010
It has been recently argued that the particles in Colloquial Singapore English (CSE) constitute a grammatical category that actively draws new members to it. Drawing on distributional and collocational evidence, this paper establishes that CSE has a new particle, "ya". The paper then proceeds to analyse the discourse pragmatic function…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Vowels, Acoustics, English (Second Language)