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Movement to teach "correct" Cantonese pronunciation in Hong Kong
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Starting in the 1980s, proper Cantonese pronunciation has been much promoted in Hong Kong, with the scholar Richard Ho (何文匯) as its iconic campaigner. The very idea of proper pronunciation of Cantonese is controversial, since the concept of labeling native speakers' usage and speech in terms of correctness is not generally supported by linguistics.[1] Law et al. (2001) point out that the phrase 懶音laan5 jam1 "lazy sounds," most commonly discussed in relation to phonetic changes in Hong Kong Cantonese, implies that the speaker is unwilling to put forth sufficient effort to articulate the standard pronunciation.[2]
^Trudgill, Peter (1976), Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Value Judgements: Correctness, Adequacy and Aesthetics, Universität Duisburg-Essen, p. 5, archived from the original on 2018-12-01, retrieved 2019-03-14
^Law, Sam-Po, Roxana S.Y. Fung and Robert S. Bauer. "Perception and Production of Cantonese consonant endings". Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing, 6:3, 2001, pp. 179-195.
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