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    Core ACR MD Rrreurar SOAS ey inyaren Met Langugec| 1 IE dad the peeved soa ah he ‘ewgardod 3 yh and “tn Ine Wet ny nda Santa sve ade sss vation aed thsi ver etgy ‘eng ee ao pn a bem an nea ltonship wen ach aha aed at an ‘vas such saator slo ahve all epee fatley "ink Thus devslopweel-eselaonary anges ad soa smc ive tgeteriade the elatonsip betwee Creed 30 faeprab mtr chnescna nepal one. Tes ore tle vot pling i teen ie ay ec a yc be spre ‘embeve sot th fw Teel ot ptengy tn standard English he int tha ha couse hy the presence of Chale English, and hat gone ea tumblg Bock the way of poges fr many West th inonual enact of ings tes ied gemlly 2s of Seley ins sei langage and daar cans ceo wands guage we ‘erage me devshopment aa Fechings of ect ‘tsoatiree isin sce he rae of Ue 8 at Wes ince have grow in tontilee enough to arept resent st ungange pater th eter apecaon At the sme ve scaboine aeae eae apa 4 + Linguistic differences between the West Indian territories ay beer te Wes! adn trois tral ad tna ‘oping tom sermons fondly ma fed especialy pol ‘ronomee ad port Sarees se eeay 0 ner ht te “renhaded oy te diflrence fw ln hav a oon soy The tools esate of Find and Tobe have ‘Nisa derence sida stony fete ore ‘hella ut tt Nv Sa Aga a separ ‘nt to cus of rence of ep tate Wes Ices poe ‘Mrocstun ave engendered ceneleshosties th among sna caw nd oe tier on oy heal To We Tae cme nn NEt Ians thehgt ‘hectare notieatie and eval esplsined he dierenes eter ‘itane and Angin ave nt ba he peceton of deere by the pepleo thes wa ala eae ice anita ok Fete Te at at wmiay van oe caer uae roceted wheres ernce singly peeved means at Uierence, however sah sau greater importance cept fg erence he ea Uns ab any bene “cumin tigunies rte ees egy speech ana many ‘tbe tenes the cpap th vey Segre ok 0H) ‘tsa eet fren Speech when hs spec nt Toney neghourng, depends pay on theese the intl trove on he pve the ae genera ich ‘usta ngs eaten Fr example, spesbers of Eas. Suey acer im rung Bat sper, Dt ol Fetes day nh Canadian ot New Zant spec nko tre they weve Canara or New Zelsers tp) be ‘Wen tniey then, spears ave abut te spent st rl eau hve een Inthe Wes Iie enone prominence lay kd 6 ‘cones develope populate se al ety of sper Tis dey evel othe wa the terre are desgnte and roped tgeher The mies lel and unalical sed fe tenis a rungs nt cy revel Asean an ata bt Ie seed tosmather thea of smn teases Qabado, pony or ito seasons ae pay beease fe peeved Engin Gestation which e anbvaca Innate because aitouph sw nqaivey to suggests cy Osteo a mor mers alo suggest wcievement of characteris which ate to me etntbencca in ature Tn aditon, Barbas athe oly ‘Wet ttn o bares walkoowneiksame = Bj (rv ont the word Brana without the Wt Sylable. Ambivalence twarls Dorsanate ato revealed in these of ts word Many West Indians ase he tern wth a negtve contain or beceded by “iogutry sect and au beleve tat ese preade and ‘éjetve conte the lev Brida should be used. Bandas theacves do wt show any desde prolerence fr one ter oer the Iamacne rele tal he oer teres a smalls, even ‘hg Guyana nota an ad in an areas mc ger tha Fanon Bertone es tthe Windward sands eto a fer peopl reasons, butt ey to estaba super ove hee ‘hve meghbuurs The team isandy, without a preceding adjeav. tien sel torte oan) oval the Windwaed sod teed ands i primp a ihet which he Windnards and Lec ‘in lancome ating unt an algo 363 resi of -vecnmic proupg of te sme sands asthe Lesser Developed Counts, The gate igh er ad th the wes et sakng iy Stn tne tts may tse oy Sgultaraewnces tpl hem snmp Fo ape ‘tarmen of Angie spr ave tal nw, nt ee hegre bur beste algun or many indainusae fevrty name ete ss Tat he tt most ‘Noindns woul in daly stecntag xtwen tvs yet ams and ore of Rag Rage inguay npn the sameway stam ihn the ‘es ay Ivers htoro gut mane ‘iRise Jason Coe pecened feet al wens frontend sad nosunt nth mas radon {joc lino an ayes spec te cognac of ‘SChuter anger tes pelea he Shs ger not nd wh he one rs te se sh nando Subjective dni characteristics ae ington, but should not te allowed To overshadow ejectvely Monae ones, whic lee Hlemonetate iaantes between teres whic ae mot well non fipue 1 aces to lstte pecved marhedness and Isto and Ingle eaten betwee the rhracterae speech (prinipaly ‘om andar Engi of West tds ee Fig 4.1 Historical nat lngusic lationships Uta the characte pec of West ios There has always been migration Between terres, bu the aromee in Fig ave added east that during the formative yeas of Se haat opeech ofthe people, migration mas on sic cle that {eontnbutes number ol estes or atleted speach generally In fact Alister Hughes (1960) goes solar 0 sy ‘owns repr ach cone oct tough opps ‘ea ave at they ser age common no andar Engl ay any be gfe a angle gu ny fa the ease of Guyana and Barbados, of te 40,000 migrants eho ‘went fom the aan (0 Gaara between 183% and TBH, tds ‘ontbted the pretest pecentage ‘nthe vera cle Jamaican and Barbadian spec are the oon coy recogsed (by Wes! tan thewsetves, then asda ne ‘Guyanese the others ress eau ceases The backete Fg 4b nate nbs enses tat ere ae cose linguist silatiesbetneen the trons witha dereasng stegth n Cee features gong a Jamaica to Mlonseerat a an easing steno Feench Crevle Features from Tana to Daina. Barbados has the fewest Creole Featces an St Vincent mae than abd, CGoyanese are Tiniddinea generally ave moze falar with ames foc East lian des, es, fesval another cull ema th oe ‘ther Wes Indians The word cury fa genera Engh word a | Famili tall West indian, wheres rt less el oe thot the Enghsh speaking werd st si arte to most West inane, eh he posible excephon of famaicans, Words such a dep and wae however, are not well known outside Trinidad and Guyana except i Indiewsnfvenced communities. In the same way, wih elesence tess seis wellhnown veord, whereas tot 1 pt wel oe the West Indies outede Trimdad and Guyana. In both Guyana and Trinniad, India religous festials are oli rng, ith the sffec thatthe morslndinn pat a he popwlaion haw became aware of Ethene vocailary in the West ladies quite evident bu nal problematcal mainly becouse ofthe cosmopelitan history a hereon nd the tolerance ofthe people inthe regard In fe, paradox the non ethnic voeabulary that fe current ov idiomatic wih presents ireater prablems, both Yor smterpretation and acceptably. er Evample sro Guyanese says the verb Ae im this comtent tends to jar those whe say niche Or, 3 Tamoican uses ll 10 mean ‘even’ 3 i it tends tobe disconcerting to those er West Indians unfamiie with icin short, therefore, ethnic vocabulary f nat provocative, becabse the reason for is existence and usage is quite clea, onthe ther hand Unfamifar usage of basic words is often regarded as ilngial and Uingrammatial Linguistic similarities, inguistic distinctiveness and linguistic complication between the teritories can be ilustrated more precisely bby using the selected features of vocabslory, pronunciation and syntax presented in Table 4 1- These festuses sve significant and except for fave been broadly commented on in chapter 3 The fst conclusion (| bbe drawn from the table, one thal would be further strengthened more features were added, fs that there are no exclusive subgioupings Covering all the features. The feature tw (c French ous yes) used after sentences as 2 tag, as in ‘can be attributed to French influence, but tense vowels rather than x ‘ones, represented by the Feature ih, especially Bn position, € & ile, ny anstead of thre, nates, play, bow! and replacement of lax by tense, ©. ln, st stead of sip, sat “sleep, sheet cannot be easily liributed to French influence, especially as the former Decure in Montserrat and the later is not characteristic of French The hegator ne, the word sey used to introduce 2 clause after certain verbs And the continunus particie# clearly divide the terstoties into two. as Table 4.1 Selected features of vocabulary, pronunciation and sentex mn the Wes nds» (Dr, a vaviant of occurs n Barbadian speech bt ts not ‘widespread }On the other hand, dor uae for he abt hoses no pallern of dintbatin n keeping eth ther Fates aco ll he Tevitones andthe fact that hes never been Leste of Jaican Speesi distinguishes Jamia om the ars The ane lesture able} which canbe termed an niepensabie Wert Indian Cree Teature vale weeds topcase, ie absence rom Barbadian speech {ari there i o trace that ever was in Batados) aes the prblem Tehether speech in Barbados was eve fully Creche ‘The occurence of sgefcant estes arcs the trove shoves

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