Rhoticity in educated Jamaican English

Rosenfelder, Ingrid

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“…As we have seen above, our informants are just like the speakers of AAVE, in that they are inconsistent with regard to the pronunciation of /r/. But this irregularity in the pronunciation of /r/ is also witnessed in the speech of other Jamaicans (Rosenfelder, 2009;Wells, 1982Wells, , 1973Mousa, 1994, among others). According to Wells (1980), one should acknowledge variability in the pronunciation of post-vocalic /r/.…”

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“…Wells (1973) suggests American influence brought home by workers, students, American tourists, or even radio broadcasts. On the other hand, Rosenfelder (2009) refers this rhoticity to the fact that the early settlers and later immigrants to the New World were speakers of the non-standard British dialects, notably speakers of the rhotic Scottish English. Moreover, many early settlers arrived from Barbados, hence the influence of the only West Indian rhotic accent (Holms, 2000).…”

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English /r/ in L2 and Pidgin/Creole Languages

Mousa¹

2020

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This study aims to investigate how Arab L1 learners of English and speakers of the Broad Jamaican Creole cope with the production of the approximant /r/ preconsonantly, post vocalically and in Stop+/r/ clusters, according to the RP norm. To this end, a list of words containing the approximant in the above three environments was given to the two groups, to read. Their production was tape recorded and transcribed. The approximant was nearly totally produced as trill in the three environments by the Arab learners, though one learner managed to produce an American-like /r/ in addition to the trill. On the other hand, the Jamaican informants produced the approximant according to the RP norm and as an American-like /r/. Whereas Lass’s (1984) assumption regarding the preference for trills proved to be true for the Arab learners, it was not the case with the Jamaican informants, in whose production trill was entirely absent. The study also provided further support to the view that phonological acquisition is achieved by gradual reinforcement of motor patterns.

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English /r/ in L2 and Pidgin/Creole Languages

Mousa¹

2020

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Corpus-Based Approaches to World Englishes

Hundt¹,

Schreier²,

Schneider³

2019

The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes

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The chapter provides an overview of the developments in synchronic and diachronic corpuslinguistic research into World Englishes (WE), detailing methodological concerns such as sampling frames, representativeness, corpus size, and statistical modelling on the one hand and the broadening scope of corpus-based research from ENL to ESL and EFL varieties on the other hand. It also surveys areas in which corpus-evidence has been applied in the study of WE (e.g. as a testing bed for models of WEs, for the study of language contact, typology and change or as a source of evidence for sociolinguistic and pragmatic variation), providing ample illustration from seminal research papers and recent studies in the field.

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Variationist sociolinguistics and corpus-based variationist linguistics: overlap and cross-pollination potential

Szmrecsanyi

2017

Can. J. Linguist.

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The paper surveys overlap between corpus linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics. Corpus linguistics is customarily defined as a methodology that bases claims about language on usage patterns in collections of naturalistic, authentic speech or text. Because this is what is typically done in variationist sociolinguistics work, I argue that variationist sociolinguists are by definition corpus linguists, though of course the reverse is not true: the variationist method entails more than merely analyzing usage data, and not all corpus analysts are interested in variation. But that being said, a considerable and arguably increasing number of corpus linguists not formally trained in variationist sociolinguistics are explicitly concerned with variation and engage in what I callcorpus-based variationist linguistics(CVL). I first discuss what unites or divides work in CVL and in variationist sociolinguistics. In a plea to cross subdisciplinary boundaries, I subsequently identify three research areas where variationist sociolinguists may draw inspiration from work in CVL: conducting multi-variable research, paying more attention to probabilistic grammars, and taking more seriously the register-sensitivity of variation patterns.

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Rhoticity in educated Jamaican English

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English /r/ in L2 and Pidgin/Creole Languages

English /r/ in L2 and Pidgin/Creole Languages

Corpus-Based Approaches to World Englishes

Variationist sociolinguistics and corpus-based variationist linguistics: overlap and cross-pollination potential

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