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- Title
Gullah-Geechee Accents in English on Daufuskie and Sapelo Islands.
- Authors
Preeshl, Artemis
- Abstract
In Gullah-Geechee accents in English, centralizing, rounding, backing, and lowering vowels, monophthongizing diphthongs, and simplifying consonant cluster were expected in comparison with the So-Called General American (SCGA) accent. Five Sapelo Island interviewees and three Daufuskie Island interviewees from Gullah-Geechee communities read "Arthur the Rat" and told stories about growing up. Centralization, rounding, raising, backing, and monophthongization were realized more often than lowering and unrounding. Several interviewees unrounded vowels in stories about growing up. Devoicing initial and/or final consonants, and substituting plosives for SCGA fricatives or affricates, connected this accent to Gullah creole and Krio. Sapelo interviewees centralized, monophthongized, diminished rhoticity, and sibilant endings, and/or shortened nasal and lateral endings in "Arthur the Rat," adding raising, backing, substituting plosives for affricates, and simplifying consonant cluster in spontaneous speech. Daufuskie interviewees significantly varied realizations. Sapelo interviewees incorporated more Gullah-Geechee features than Daufuskie interviewees in Gullah-Geechee accents in English.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language; SPEECH; ISLANDS; VOWELS; CONSONANTS; SOCIOLINGUISTICS
- Publication
Voice & Speech Review, 2024, Vol 18, Issue 1, p44
- ISSN
2326-8263
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1080/23268263.2022.2130294