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Trinidadian English

english_caribbeanintermediate

Trinidad and Tobago · Trinidad

Trinidadian English is a system in its own right, and it shares the Caribbean core with Jamaican English -- non-rhotic, TH realized as a stop, TRAP and BATH merged, full unstressed vowels -- while differing from it in the back vowels and the diphthongs. LOT and THOUGHT fall together at [ɑ], so 'cot' and 'caught' are the same word, which Jamaican English does not do. FACE and GOAT are long monophthongs rather than diphthongs. The two are grouped under one macro-region because they share a history, not because they are interchangeable.

Cot-caught merged (unlike Jamaican)Non-rhoticTH-stoppingFACE and GOAT are pure long vowelsFull unstressed vowels

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Every phonetic parameter that deviates from this schema’s diffing anchor, with a plain-English gloss.

FeatureValueMeaningDrill
LanguagelanguageenDrill
Mixed Languagesmixed_languagesDrill
S Treatments_treatmentstandardDrill
D Intervocalicd_intervocalicstandardDrill
D Finald_finalstandardDrill
R Infinitiver_infinitivestandardDrill
R Initialr_initialapproximantDrill
N Final Velarizationn_final_velarizationNoDrill
Final Consonant Dropfinal_consonant_dropnoneDrill
Vowel Reductionvowel_reductioncrisp_openDrill
Syllable Timingsyllable_timingstress_timedDrill
Th Realizationth_realizationstoppingDrill