Prosodic Variation of English in Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad

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dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage48
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue1
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage72
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume42
dc.contributor.affiliationFuchs, Robert; 3 Department of English University of Hamburg Germany
dc.contributor.affiliationDeuber, Dagmar; 1 English Department University of Muenster Germany
dc.contributor.affiliationLacoste, Véronique; 4 Département d'Etudes du Monde Anglophone Université Lumière Lyon 2 France
dc.contributor.affiliationHänsel, Eva Canan; 1 English Department University of Muenster Germany
dc.contributor.authorMeer, Philipp
dc.contributor.authorFuchs, Robert
dc.contributor.authorDeuber, Dagmar
dc.contributor.authorLacoste, Véronique
dc.contributor.authorHänsel, Eva Canan
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-26T16:04:34Z
dc.date.available2023-07-26T16:04:34Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.date.updated2023-04-19T16:53:55Z
dc.description.abstractAbstract Varieties of English in the Caribbean have been claimed to have characteristic pitch patterns. However, there is little empirical research on prosodic aspects of English in the region. This paper provides a comparative phonetic analysis of several pitch parameters (pitch level, range, dynamism, rate of change, variability in rate of change, and tone rate) in English language data from Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad that comprises read and spontaneous speech from 243 speakers. The results show that a wide pitch range and a high degree of variability in pitch, as mentioned in previous works, are not necessarily characteristic of English in the Caribbean overall, but that there are considerable cross‐territorial prosodic differences, with English in Trinidad showing more variability than in Dominica and Grenada, particularly among female speakers. Socioprosodic variation, largely specific to Trinidad, was also identified.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/weng.12615
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2945
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.journalWorld Englishesen
dc.rightsL::CC BY 4.0
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dc.subject.ddcddc:420
dc.subject.fieldenglishstudies
dc.subject.fieldlinguistics
dc.titleProsodic Variation of English in Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad
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dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
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