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This study looks at issues of dialect and style that arise in classicalchoral singing in Trinidad. It poses the question of what accentis preferred, and then goes on to look closely at perceived andreal difficulties secondary school choral singers face in producingthe target accents. It considers these findings in light of largerdiscussions of norm-setting and language attitudes in post-colonialcontexts, and afterwards with reference to debates about languagestyle, particularly in performance.The data reveal a preference for Standard British Englishpronunciations, while the use of features associated with mesolectalvarieties of Trinidadian English/Creole is highly stigmatized. Thereis further evidence for endonormativity in the Trinidadian languagecontext, the data indicative of two varieties in Trinidad: a Creoleand a local variety of Standard English. The data also reveal severalfeatures that are part of neither the British nor the TrinidadianEnglish phonemic inventories, but that are nonetheless identified asnecessary for choral singing. These features were labeled classicalchoral singing style.
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