Liberian Settler English: phonology Conclusion

The phonology of LibSE is an understudied topic. I have tried to show that it is, nevertheless, an important one in its own right and in the comparative study of AAE in the diaspora.

A National Science Foundation grant and a National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend made possible my research on the Liberian Settler English of Sinoe. I am grateful to the Rev. D. Hosea Ellis for his assistance throughout. I wish to thank the older heads of the Settler community in Sinoe County for allowing Hosea and me to carry out sociolinguistic interviews with them. Peter Roberts Toe and Comfort Swen Toe facilitated my research in Sinoe. I thank Paul DeDecker for his assistance in mapping Settler vowels.