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In:Dialect on Air: Bahamian Creole in historical radio broadcasts
Diana Wengler
[Varieties of English Around the World G71] 2025
► pp. ix–xii

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Table 3.1Overview of variables and data sets used for comparisons26

Table 4.1Frequencies of zero copula in BahCE by data set and following grammatical environment41

Table 4.2Copula variants in The Fergusons by temporal reference42

Table 4.3Copula variant by following grammatical context in The Fergusons43

Table 4.4Copula variant by subject type in The Fergusons46

Table 4.5Copula variant by preceding phonological context in The Fergusons47

Table 4.6Copula variant by following phonological context in The Fergusons48

Table 4.7Following phonological context by NP, AdjP and VP in The Fergusons48

Table 4.8Copula variant by prestige of character and addressee in The Fergusons50

Table 4.9Copula variant by prestige dyad of character and addressee in The Fergusons50

Table 4.10Copula variant by gender of character and addressee in The Fergusons51

Table 4.11Copula variant by gender dyad of character and addressee in The Fergusons51

Table 4.12Be variants by temporal reference in The Fergusons68

Table 4.13Ain’t in BahCE by study, verb paradigm and lect81

Table 4.14Variants of be negation by temporal reference84

Table 4.15Variants of have negation85

Table 4.16Variants of do negation by temporal reference86

Table 4.17Variants of do negation by stativity and temporal reference87

Table 4.18Variants of do negation by subject type and temporal reference88

Table 4.19Variants of do negation by negative concord and temporal reference89

Table 4.20Overview of predictors and predictor levels for do negation89

Table 5.1Results from acoustic studies of low vowels in BahCE by lexical set103

Table 5.2Low vowels by lexical set in The Fergusons105

Table 5.3Low vowels by character and lexical set in The Fergusons105

Table 5.4Low vowels by following phonological context and lexical set in The Fergusons106

Table 5.5Mean formant and duration values by lexical set in The Fergusons107

Table 5.6Median Mahalanobis distances for short and long low vowels in two dimensions (2D: F1′xF2′, 3D: F1′xF2′x duration) and proportions of overlap between vowel pairs by voicing context in The Fergusons107

Table 5.7Percentages of overlap between short and long low vowels in two dimensions (2D: F1′xF2′, 3D: F1′xF2′x duration) by voicing context in acrolectal and mesolectal urban Bahamian speech (from Kraus 2017: 253)109

Table 5.8Signiﬁcant effects and interactions from linear mixed model analysis of low vowels110

Table 5.9Mean F1′ and F2′ values and standard deviations for word forms of ask and ax for F1′ and F2′121

Table 5.10Statistical signiﬁcances between word forms of ask and ax for F1′ and F2′121

Table 5.11Results from acoustic studies of mouth and price in BahCE132

Table 5.12mouth and price by character and lexical set in The Fergusons133

Table 5.13mouth and price by following phonological context in The Fergusons134

Table 5.14Log ratios and standard deviations for mouth and price by vowel position and following phonological context138

Table 5.15Signiﬁcant effects and interactions from mixed model analysis of mouth139

Table 5.16Signiﬁcant effects and interactions from mixed model analysis of price141

Table 6.1Variables in terms of their linguistic, individual
and social differentiation158

Table 6.2Predicted F2′ trap values for Minna Ferguson by addressee160

Table 6.3Mean character rankings and standard deviations by variable type165