Datapoint Trinidad English Creole/Tone
The question of whether Caribbean Creoles have inherited West African tone systems is still subject to debate. For Trinidad English Creole, like other Caribbean English-lexicon creoles, it seems safe to say that the accentual system is based on pitch and not on stress (cf. Solomon 1993: 34).
However, disyllabic nouns may have two tone patterns: high-low and low-high, whereby stress is always on the first syllable.
Values 
Simple system, for lexical distinctions only
- Example 6-130:
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tèa-chér, pò-líce, fàr-mér vs. fàr-mèr, bétt-èrtèa-chér,teacherpò-líce,policefàr-mérfarmervs.vs.fàr-mèr,Farmerbétt-èrbetterteacher, police, Farmer (name) vs. farmer (profession), better
- Confidence:
- Unspecified