english_caribbean · Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidadian English
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.
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Active features
Every phonetic parameter that deviates from this schema’s diffing anchor, with a plain-English gloss.
| Feature | Value | Meaning | Drill |
|---|---|---|---|
| Languagelanguage | en | Drill | |
| Mixed Languagesmixed_languages | — | Drill | |
| S Treatments_treatment | standard | Drill | |
| D Intervocalicd_intervocalic | standard | Drill | |
| D Finald_final | standard | Drill | |
| R Infinitiver_infinitive | standard | Drill | |
| R Initialr_initial | approximant | Drill | |
| N Final Velarizationn_final_velarization | No | Drill | |
| Final Consonant Dropfinal_consonant_drop | none | Drill | |
| Vowel Reductionvowel_reduction | crisp_open | Drill | |
| Syllable Timingsyllable_timing | stress_timed | Drill | |
| Th Realizationth_realization | stopping | Drill |