"What's them mutter with vowels": Exploring Philippine English intelligibility

• Main Author: Dino, Cheene M.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2013
• Subjects: English language—Dialects—Philippines—Mutual intelligibility; English language—Pronunciation by foreign speakers; Other English Language and Literature
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/6998
• Institution: De La Salle University

Many might frown upon the idea of a prescriptive pronunciation because it seems to gear towards overdependence to the American way. However, pronunciation is still one among the (many) factors to consider when a speaker wants to be intelligible. This study is anchored to the notion that a phonetic c...