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Example 12-258
But you ain't feel when you get bite? [Yeah. You don't see them before.] You feel when you get bite.
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you
2sg
.
sbj
ain't
neg
feel
feel
when
when
you
you
get
get
bite?
bite
[But] you didn’t feel it when you got stung (by the jellyfish)? [...] [You (usually) feel it when you get stung.]
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Polar questions: Only interrogative intonation
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