English in Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago is the southern most anglophone island group in the Lesser Antilles in the eastern Caribbean and the islands are only a short distance from mainland Venezuela. As with acrolectal English at other anglophone locations of the Caribbean one finds typical features such as the lack of syllable-final /r/, no vowel length distinctions and a shift of fricatives to stops in words like think and this (which have interdental fricatives in standard English).

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