In:Dialect on Air: Bahamian Creole in historical radio broadcasts
Diana Wengler
[Varieties of English Around the World G71] 2025
► pp. 151–174
Chapter 6Discussion
Published online: 27 June 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g71.c6
https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g71.c6
Article outline
- 6.1Linguistic, individual and social variation
- Copula variation
- Is-levelling
- Was-levelling
- Be negation
- Do negation
- Have negation
- Bath
- Start
- Trap
- Mouth
- Price
- 6.2Load-bearing and non-load-bearing variables
- Type II and type III variables
- Type I and type IV variables
- 6.3Zooming in on the individual speaker
- 6.4Decreolization and language change?
- Copula variation
- Was-levelling
- Ain’t as verbal negator
- Trap, bath and start
- Mouth
- 6.5Synthesis
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