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Postcolonial Englishes are a rich source on cross linguistic dynamics in contact situations where English is the superstrate. Sinhala is a minority language of the world and is spoken by a population of 15,173,820 in Sri Lanka. The language specific rankings of markedness constraints in the phonological grammar and conventions governing grapheme to phoneme conversion rules of Sinhala result in the dichotomy of transfer versus inhibition of the source language phonology. The Constraint Fluctuation Hypothesis recognizes that the reranking of constraints of a donor language is not a homogeneous...

On a quest to satisfy the need for acoustic documentation of pronunciation norms of Standard Sri Lankan English (SSLE) and deviations which identify the users of Other Varieties of Sri Lankan English (OVSLE) this book bases its theoretical underpinning on tenets of Markedness. A participant population of 50 Sinhala/Sri Lankan English and 50 Tamil/Sri Lankan English bilinguals faced a questionnaire-interview procedure where data collectors evaluated their bilingual profile, and pronunciation across a 50 word instrument compiled from literature. Thereafter utilizing purposive sampling...

This is a compilation of research articles encompassing Micro and Macro perspectives on Linguistics. Documentary linguistic research scrutinizes acoustic characteristics of three vowels of Standard Sri Lankan English and the correlation between the variables proficiency in the second language and first language dominancy against bilingual pronunciation. Sociolinguistic research examines the uses of language, the relationship between language, its users and its uses through studies on Interlingual texting and modes of secondary term formation in ICT terminology in Sinhala. Applied Linguistics...