The consonants were a lot less work than the vowels on this one, though a couple things did pop out:
- Fortition: Interdental Fricative -> Alveolar Stop (/ð/ -> /d/ and /θ/ -> /t/) (coded in magenta below) is common, but not universal in the sample, nor in other samples that I’ve found. It seems to be more common in syllable final position, but the function words that begin with /ð/ are mixed.
- Some consonants are palatalized (/t/ and /ŋ/) so that they affect the nearby vowels as well. These are coded in yellow below.
- Some sounds are deleted such as in /dʌnʔ/ “didn’t” and /fæk/ “fact”. These are coded in blue.
- The /r/ sound is generally dropped in syllable final position, and is occasionally flapped in other positions. This is coded below in orange.
To practice these, I used a similar method to the vowels post: Practice individual words for a bit, and then attempt a full run of the talk. This time around, I also attempted to improvise an answer to this related open-ended question: How has the community helped in this process?
Invite the leaders into a meeting, at Islas High School. We outline the rollout functions of the police and sent out the sot. We didn’t deny anything, we just put everything on the tyable. We decided to work with them to bring about changes. So what we realized, for the last two years, we don’t have a murder in Payne Avenue. Right? And, um, when you look at Majesty Garden also, the year that the Ratbat gang was so dominant, the amount of killing and shootings. We foot patrols in the area, we put mobile patrols and a supervisor ensure that the police are there on a 24 basis. So we have approximately 71 gangs in 2014, now we have at least 51. So the tremendous success is to dismantle these gangs, and we’re not going to stop there, we’re gonna continue, we’re gonna have matches, we’re gonna have meetings, we’re gonna have things wit the youts, like domino tournaments, football tournaments, and for the young ladies, trying to come up with some netball tournaments. And of course we put tremendous strain on the police to come up with these resources, but the fac that we are doing it we’re just gonna work for the betterment.
