(2017) Sherriah, A.; Devonish, H.; Thomas, E.; Creanza, N.
This Supplemental Table, derived from
Table 1 in the paper “Using features of a Creole language to reconstruct population
history and cultural evolution: Tracing the English origins of
Sranan”(Sherriah, Devonish, Thomas, Creanza, 2018), presents the 45 items used to define the
similarity between Sranan and the speech of informants in the 313
locations in the Survey of English Dialects. For 33 of the items, a single phonetic variable, e.g., [r] or [h], is coded for presence (‘+’ or ‘1’) or absence (‘–’ or ‘0’). For the
remaining 12, two variables are coded for presence or absence, with
the resulting 4 combinations reduced to the same binary with ‘1’ being
used if the English pronunciation corresponds to the Sranan reflex,
and ‘0’, if it does not. To use the data one, therefore, need only use
the Sranan vector of forty-five 0,1 combination to search for matching vectors across the 313 SED localities.
