Jamaican English The consonants
المؤلف:
Hubert Devonish and Otelemate G. Harry
المصدر:
A Handbook Of Varieties Of English Phonology
الجزء والصفحة:
473-27
2024-04-06
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Jamaican English
The consonants
There are 24 consonants in the phonemic inventory of JamE, inclusive of the semi-vowels /w/ and /j/. The inventory below, adopted from Wells (1973: 26), shows the consonant phonemes of JamE.

There are three consonant phonemes which exist in JamE but not in JamC. These are /θ/, /ð/ and 