A research team engaged in HK English interviewed fifteen English-major female teacher trainees (no male?) at the Hong Kong Institute of Education.
Acknowledging voiceless TH (words such as think and that) is widely pronounced as [f] in Hong Kong and people in London may also use [f] and [v], they argue that "It seems that Hong Kong English may be exhibiting greater continuing influence from the pronunciation nowadays found in London and much of the south of England".
Schneider posits a five-stage dynamic model for the emergence of postcolonial Englishes. HK English is still in the third "nativization" stage where HK English is only now emerging as an independent variety. (p. 171)
David Deterding, Jennie Wong and Andy Kirkpatrick's "The pronunciation of Hong Kong English,"English World-Wide, Vol. 29, No. 2 (2008), pp. 148-175.
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