Aug 2026· English World-Wide. A Journal of Varieties of English· 0 citations· 35 references
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Several phonetic and phonological commonalities of English in the Caribbean have been described, yet the empirical basis for such claims remains uneven, with smaller territories particularly underrepresented. The present study examines sub-regional patterns of English vowel production within the Eastern Caribbean. We provide a comparative, cross-territorial acoustic phonetic analysis of English monophthongs in Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad, drawing on data from 274 speakers and more than 90,000 vowel tokens. The results suggest that English in the Eastern Caribbean is characterized by a combination of some shared patterns and considerable cross-territorial differences: English in Dominica exhibits the strongest vowel merger tendencies, English in Grenada occupies an intermediate position, and English in Trinidad maintains the clearest distinctions between different high, back, and low vowels. These findings offer the first comparative acoustic evidence of vowel realizations in English in the Eastern Caribbean.
Vowel substitution is common feature of non-native English speech. Speakers often transfer vowels from their native language to English. Non-native speakers of English typically substitute RP vowels with those sharing similar articulatory properties in their native languages. These patterns of restructuring lead to a m...
Abdulmalik Usman· International Journal of Res...· 0 citations
(t,d) deletion is widely investigated in US English, yet comparatively much less research has been carried out in the UK, where (t,d) was mainly examined in northern British English varieties. This paper examines (t,d) deletion in the speech of thirty-six East Anglian speakers, stratified by social class, age, and sex....
Carmen Ciancia, Peter Patrick· Journal of English Linguisti...· 0 citations
This review takes a look at and breaks down the phonological system of Singapore English (SgE), known as Singlish, whilst going on to compare it with mainstream Australian English (AusE). Doing this by drawing on research in experimental phonetics, as well as sociophonetics and sociolinguistics, the study identifies th...
Yu-Xin Zhang· Academic Journal of Manageme...· 0 citations
This paper investigates the divergent adaptation of the English vowel phoneme /ɪ/ in Russian and Ukrainian loanwords, revealing notable differences despite the close linguistic relationship between the two languages. In Russian, /ɪ/ is predominantly adapted as /i/, with minimal occurrences of [ɨ] on allophonic level, w...
Kateryna Laidler· Prace Językoznawcze· 0 citations
Varieties of English differ in (i) the amount of aspiration/voicing in plosives, traditionally measured in Voice Onset Time (VOT), and (ii) the degree of vowel clipping before fortis consonants (the Voicing Effect). The two seem to correlate with each other, with a possible functional explanation, but they also interac...
Katalin Balogné Bérces, Erika Sajtós· Anglica. An International Jo...· 0 citations
This paper investigates the acoustic properties of diphthongs in Central Australian Aboriginal English (CAAE), an
Aboriginal English variety spoken in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Northern Territory. We analysed vowel duration, formant trajectory,
and acoustic distance measure in tokens from conversational speech from s...
Yi-Zhou Wang, Carmel O’Shannessy, Vanessa Davis et al.· English World-Wide. A Journa...· 0 citations
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