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Phonological hypercorrection in the process of decreolization – the case of Trinidadian English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Donald Winford
Donald Winford
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University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad
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It is now well established that creole language situations such as those that exist in West Indian communities like Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad, etc., are characterized by continuing variation resulting from increasing modification of Creole structures in the direction of the lexically-related model language. The pace of the modification depends in turn on such factors as the degree of social mobility and the strength of corrective pressures from above. In all such cases, however, there develops ‘a continuous linguistic spectrum of speech varieties… which includes all possible intermediate varieties’ (DeCamp, 1971: 28).

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , September 1978 , pp. 277 - 291
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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