or [w]. Some of the more salient features are listed below. Segments tends to be [d], so this is [dis], /ə/ tends to be [ɑ],so whether is . /v/ may be or , so event may have [w] while even has [f]. It seems that [w] occurs at the start of a stressed syllable while [f] occurs at the start of an unstressed syllable. There is alternation between [l] and [n], and the same speaker may alternate with words such as light and night, and both loud and number may have either [l] or [n] at the start. Words with final /s/ add long vowel / i:/, such as Joyce [dʒɔɪs] pronunciation becomes Joysee [dʒɔɪsi:]. In final consonant clusters, just as with many other varieties of English, there is a tendency for simplification, so the plosive at the end of words such as think and camp is often omitted. Deletion of coronal plosives /t/ and /d/ from word-final clusters has been reported to occur in about 76% of tokens, though this frequency is a little less if the function words and and just are excluded from the analysis. L-vocalisation is common, so dark /l/ in the coda of a syllable is often pronounced as , and fill may be while tell is , just as in London English (Cockney). After back rounded vowels /l/ is often omitted, so school is and wall is . Like many accents in Britain, Hong Kong English is non-rhotic, so is only pronounced before a vowel. However, with the growing influence of American English, many young people in Hong Kong now pronounce the in the coda of a syllable. There is often little distinction between the non-close front vowels, and , so bat and bet may be pronounced the same (with ). Long and short vowels are generally merged, particularly involving the close vowels and (so heat and hit are both pronounced with a short tense ) as well as and (so pull and pool are the same). Vowel reduction is often avoided in function words, so a full vowel occurs in words such as and and to as well as the first syllable of content words such as accept and patrol. Intonation Multi-syllable words are often differently stressed. For example, while the word "latte" is pronounced in most variants of the English language, it is usually pronounced in Hong Kong English, with the second