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Example 11-325
Wuupa! Cho! Dis taim nou yu hav tu pie wan nainti a poun!
Wuupa!
humpf
Cho!
cho
Dis
dem
taim
time
nou
now
yu
2sg
hav
have
tu
to
pie
pay
wan
one
nainti
ninety
a
a
poun!
pound
Humpf! Cho! Nowadays you have to pay C$1.90 a pound!
Comment:
{Cho!} has been employed in the literature on Caribbean creoles to represent the click also called "suck-teeth".
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Holm 1978
: 233
Language:
Nicaraguan Creole English
by
Angela Bartens
cite
Datapoints:
Para-linguistic usages of clicks: Clicks can express only affective meanings
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