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Variation  
  
514   02:44 صباحاً   date: 2024-04-05
Author : Hubert Devonish and Otelemate G. Harry
Book or Source : A Handbook Of Varieties Of English Phonology
Page and Part : 467-27


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Variation

Wells (1973: 11) does point to the historical basis for the variation between /b/ and /v/. It does seem that /v/ is a relatively recent entrant into the phoneme inventory of JamC, imported with modern loan words from JamE. The result is that some older JamC forms with /b/ have a reflex in JamE with /v/. These forms allow for /v/ ~ /b/ variation in modern JamC. However, more recent loans with a JamE /v/ reflex only allow for /v/ in JamC. Forms with /b/ in JamE do not vary in JamC, always retaining /b/.