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Thus, three tasks were administered to basilect-dominant speakers and two to acrolectdominant ones.
Of the spectral and temporal variables studied, differences between acrolect- and basilect-dominant speakers emerged most clearly in temporal vowel proper ties.
At the same time, basilect-dominant speakers show smaller spectral differences between opposing pairs in three subsystems.
Picture task data for the basilect-dominant sample showed a different pattern from word list data.
Unlike the acrolect-dominant speakers, no basilect-dominant speaker produced exclusively monophthongal variants in the word list data.
Stative verbs are more often inflected than nonstatives (256), consistent with ben-marking in the basilect.
This is clearest for the basilect-dominant speakers for both variables.
By comparison, male and female basilect-dominant speakers showed a great deal more downgliding variants in their conversational data than in their word list data.
