The English-official Caribbean provides an insightful context for investigations of norm developmental processes, world Englishes theorizing, and mapping Englishes in multivarietal communities. While there has been an upsurge of linguistic research on the region, especially on emerging standardized varieties, little systematic empirical research exists on smaller Caribbean islands, select domain-specific patterns of production and perception in larger territories, and regional issues of standardization. This special issue addresses current research gaps and provides a well-rounded picture of language production and perception research in the anglophone Caribbean. The issue consists of articles with a variety of different methodological approaches, including corpus-linguistic, sociolinguistic, acoustic phonetic, ethnographic, and language attitudinal investigations. It covers a wide range of smaller (Bequia, Dominica, Grenada, and St. Kitts) and larger territories (the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, and Trinidad). While the articles scrutinize the anglophone Caribbean, several of the issues raised have relevance for world Englishes research more generally.

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简介：加勒比英语

英语官方加勒比地区为规范发展过程的调查、世界英语理论化和多元社区中的英语映射提供了一个有见地的背景。虽然该地区的语言学研究热潮不断，尤其是新兴的标准化品种，但很少有系统的实证研究涉及较小的加勒比岛屿、选择特定领域的生产和感知模式以及区域标准化问题。本期特刊解决了当前的研究差距，并全面介绍了加勒比英语地区的语言产生和感知研究。该期由采用各种不同方法论方法的文章组成，包括语料库语言学、社会语言学、声学语音学、民族志、和语言态度调查。它涵盖范围广泛的较小（贝基亚、多米尼加、格林纳达和圣基茨）和较大的领土（巴哈马、巴巴多斯、伯利兹和特立尼达）。虽然这些文章审视了以英语为母语的加勒比海地区，但其中提出的一些问题与更普遍的世界英语研究相关。