Sound system Vowels THOUGHT

For this word, the speaker produced the [ɔ] vowel. Turner describes words such as brought and daughter as having the lower vowel [ɒ] , noting that “ [ɔ] is seldom heard in Gullah” (2002: 18). However, the sound produced by the current speaker seems higher than [ɒ], suggesting that [ɔ] has perhaps since been added to the Gullah phonology.