In:Dialect on Air: Bahamian Creole in historical radio broadcasts
Diana Wengler
[Varieties of English Around the World G71] 2025
► pp. 197–198
Index
Published online: 27 June 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g71.index
https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g71.index
A
- AAVEsee African American Vernacular English
- acoustic phonetics 16, 27–28, 100–128, 131–149
- acrolect 1–2, 4, 8, 15–16, 36, 91, 102–104, 108–109, 131, 160–166, 169–171, 173, 175–176
- African American Vernacular English (AAVE), 10–11, 37–40, 53, 63–66, 80–83, 130
- Earlier 10–11, 37, 64–66, 80–82
- age 8–9, 15–16, 19–20, 28–31, 33, 52, 61–63, 73–75, 90–92, 97–99, 103, 124–126, 151–156, 158–160, 169–170, 173, 175
- age-grading 8–9, 31, 103
- ain’t 37, 41–42, 67–68, 79–99, 152–154, 162–163, 168–170, 173
- All-about-the-Alburys7
- apparent-time 8–10, 26–27, 30–31, 103–104, 167–169
- Audacity27
B
- bad data 5, 10–11
- Bahamianization 5–7, 173
- Bajan 37–40, 102, 130
- bath 26, 101–129, 155–165, 170
- basilect 1–2, 4, 8–9, 18, 26–27, 40–41, 54–56, 65–67, 80–81, 84–86, 102, 119, 129, 152–154, 162–163, 167–170
- Bark value100
- BBC 5–7
- Beckford Wassink, Alicia106
- be-deletionsee zero copula
- be-levelling 3, 25–27, 34, 42, 64–79, 93, 152–154, 157–159, 164–166, 168
- Bequia Creole 37, 80
- Black power5
- broadcasting 2, 5–7
C
- Canadian Raising 130–131, 149, 156
- cluster effect 43, 53, 152–153
- comparative sociolinguistics 24–27
- Conditional Random Forestsee Random Forest
- conversational data 16, 26, 51, 77–78, 102–103, 114–115, 149–150
- Coupland, Nikolas 11–12, 172
- Courtesy campaignsee Friendliness-Through-Understanding
- creole continuum 8–10, 163, 173
- Creole Origins Hypothesis 39–40
D
- de (locative) 40, 54–55, 65, 167–168
- decreolization 2, 8–10, 30–31, 40, 63, 65–67, 166–174
- deletion, straight/Labov
37–38, 41–42
- Romaine 37–38
- diachronic change 167 ; see also decreolization
- Dynamic Model 9–10, 172
E
- Eckert, Penelope 28–31
- educated speakers 15, 26, 102–104, 162, 167, 170
- ELAN 27–28
- emic classification 29–30
F
- following grammatical environment (linguistic variable) 39–44, 46–48, 52–55, 59–61, 63, 66, 69–71, 75–79, 81, 83, 152–153, 162, 164–165
- following phonetic environment (linguistic variable) 39, 46–49, 52, 59, 104–106, 108, 112–113, 116, 123–128, 133–149, 156, 160–161
- fleece 101, 134–135, 145
- Freeport 1, 7, 9
- “Friendliness-Through-Understanding” (FTU)6
G
- gender 15–16, 26, 28, 31–33, 35, 48–52, 61–63, 73–74, 79, 89–92, 97–98, 106–107, 116–117, 122–129, 135, 139–140, 143, 146–151, 155–161, 176
- goose 101, 134–135, 146, 156
- grammatical variation 16–17, 36–99, 171–174
- Grand Bahama 1, 7
- Gullah 2, 37, 39, 47, 53–54, 61–62, 82, 94, 102, 149, 156, 161, 169, 171
- Guyanese Creole37
H
- Hackert, Stephanie 1–2, 4, 8–9, 12, 18, 26–28, 30–32, 40, 54, 66, 79–89, 98–100, 102, 151–154, 162, 168–171, 175
- high performance 12–16, 29, 172, 176
- historical changesee diachronic change
- hypercorrection 15–16, 174
I
- inauthentic speech 11–12
- independence 5–7, 9–10, 13–14, 30, 172–173
- Irvine, Allison 15–17, 32, 104, 132, 152, 158–174
- Irvine-Sobers, Allisonsee Irvine, Allison
- is-levelling 26, 66–67, 75–79, 152–153, 157–159, 164–167
J
- Jamaican Creole 32, 37, 66, 102, 130, 163
- Jamaican English 15, 32
L
- Labov, William 8, 10–11, 15, 29–30, 31, 37–39, 41, 64, 80, 130, 152, 173–174
- language change, 8–10, 31, 40, 80, 103–104, 159 see decreolization
- Liberian Settler English 11, 37
- load-bearing 15–17, 157–163
- locative 39–40, 43–44, 53–55, 61, 63, 69–70, 81, 152, 167–168
M
- Mahalanobis distance 107–108
- Maynard, Clement7
- media language 1–2, 12–14, 172–174
- mesolect 1–2, 8, 15, 18, 26–27, 36, 40–41, 54–55, 66–67, 80–82, 84–85, 98–99, 103, 109, 114, 151–153, 161–162, 166–173
- Mills, Sonia7
- Minnis, Eddie 22, 27
- Minnis, Edward 5–7, 13, 20–22, 27
- Miss Lye 6, 20–23
- mixed-effects model 33–35, 109–115, 135–136, 139–143
- mouth 26, 129–150, 156–158, 161–166, 171, 173, 175
- mundane performance12
N
- narrator 24, 29–30, 49, 61, 79, 91, 96, 98–99, 113, 116, 128–129, 144, 146, 152–154, 156, 161, 166, 169–170
- Nassau 1, 6–7, 13, 18, 102–103, 131, 166
- negation 25–26, 42, 67, 79–99, 166, 168–169, 172
- be 80–85, 154, 157–158, 162–163
- do 80–82, 85–99, 154, 157–159, 163–165, 173
- have 80–85, 154, 157–158, 162–163
- New Providence1
- non-load-bearing 15–17, 157–163
P
- performed languagesee high performance and mundane performance
- Praat28
- price 26, 129–150
- prize 131–132
- phonological variation 16–17
R
- radio soap 2, 4–8, 18–20
- random forest 33–34, 43, 52–62, 75–78, 85–97, 104, 116–127, 143–148
- real-time 4, 8–11, 31, 65, 100, 175
- register 2, 26, 160–174
S
- Samaná English 11, 37
- Schneider, Edgar 9–10, 172
- Seymour, Chanti 2, 4, 40, 44–45, 54, 61–63, 67, 69, 75–76, 167, 172
- Shilling, Alison 2, 4–5, 11, 26–27, 35, 40–41, 54–55, 64–67, 80–86, 94, 98–99, 119, 131, 152, 162, 167–172
- Smith, Rodney21
- social aspiration 29–31
- social class 15–16, 28, 31, 36, 102, 106, 135, 150, 151, 158–159, 176
- social mobility29
- social prestige 28–33, 48–50, 52, 61–63, 71, 73, 75–79, 89–92, 96–98, 106, 110–114, 123–126, 129, 135, 143, 150
- sociolinguistic interview 2, 11, 26–27, 77, 81–83, 98, 102, 131, 151
- start 25–26, 101–129, 155–160, 164–165, 170
- stigmatized (language feature) 15–16, 36, 79–80, 91, 119–121, 160–162, 169, 173
- Storr, Juliette 5, 13–14
- S-transform 100–101
- Stratification 15–16, 98, 163
T
- Tagliamonte, Sali A. 2, 11–12, 24–27, 31, 33
- Thompson, Jeanne 7, 18–19, 21, 27, 30
- The Archers100
- The Fergusons of Farm Road 18–23
- trap 25–26, 101–129, 134, 155–160, 162, 164–165, 170
- Trinidadian Creole 37, 39–40, 52–53, 64, 66–67, 102, 130, 161, 167–168
- Tristan da Cunha English66
V
- vowel normalization100
W
- was-levelling 26, 64–79, 153–154, 157–158, 168
- WebMAUS28
- Weldon, Tracey 37–40, 45–47, 61–62, 80–83, 102, 149, 161, 169, 171
Y
- you-all 46, 56–57, 69, 76–77, 88
Z
- zero copula 25–28, 36–63, 66, 70, 152–153, 162–164, 167–168, 172–173
- Zephyr Nassau Sunshinesee ZNS
- ZNS 5–8, 13–14
- z-score106
