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Example 6-130
tèa-chér, pò-líce, fàr-mér vs. fàr-mèr, bétt-èr
tèa-chér,
teacher
pò-líce,
police
fàr-mér
farmer
vs.
vs.
fàr-mèr,
Farmer
bétt-èr
better
teacher, police, Farmer (name) vs. farmer (profession), better
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Solomon
Language:
Trinidad English Creole
by
Susanne Mühleisen
cite
Datapoints:
Tone: Simple system, for lexical distinctions only
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