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Creoles at the intersection of variable processes: - t,d deletion and past-marking in the Jamaican mesolect
1991
Language Variation and Change
TD)-deletion is a well-known variable phonological process subject to the influence of both external social factors and internal structural constraints, including phonetic environmental and morphosyntactic effects. Its profile of variation has been widely investigated in American English dialects. However, it interacts with another grammatical process --the affixation of the regular Pasttense marker, final /-t, -d/ --that strongly distinguishes these dialects from Englishrelated creoles, where
doi:10.1017/s095439450000051x
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