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Peer reviewedWinford, Donald – Journal of Linguistics, 1978
Reports on a 1978 study of socially conditioned phonological change in the context of the decreolization process in Trinidad. (AM)
Descriptors: Creoles, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Variation
Peer reviewedWinford, Donald – Language Variation and Change, 1992
The marking of past temporal reference in Black English Vernacular (BEV) and Trinidadian English is compared. Similarities in the patterns of variation according to verb type and phonological conditioning suggest that past marking in contemporary BEV preserves traces of an earlier shift from a creole pattern to one approximating the Standard…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Contrastive Linguistics, Creoles, English
