Talking Rhythm Stressing Tone: The Role of Prominence in Anglo-West African Creole Languages"Using an original concept of how prominence works in the phonology, Talking Rhythm Stressing Tone makes a systematic comparison of the suprasegmental systems of the Anglo-West African Creole languages spoken in the Caribbean, South America and West Africa." -- Cover. |
Contents
The Tonological History of AngloWest African Creole | 22 |
Borrowing from StressIntonational Languages into Some Niger | 37 |
On the Evolution of Rhythm and Tone in AngloWest African | 53 |
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5-vowel accent languages African languages Anglo-West African varieties antepenultimate associated Barbados bimoraic borrowing consonant Creole Creole languages domain downstep early Anglo-West African early Djuka English cognate epithetic vowel extrametrical extrametrical syllable feature final vowel Guyanese Guyanese Creole H-tone spreads HL melody HL tone melody intonational melody Kongo Krio lexical HL melody lexical items lexical specification loanwords long vowels melody is assigned modern Djuka monosyllabic Nigerian Pidgin English non-prominent syllables Ntandu nucleus obstruent occur penultimate prominence penultimate syllable penultimate vowel phonetic phonological pitch preceding prominent syllable prominent vowel realised reinterpreted Rountree rule Saramaccan second syllable segmental prominence stem stressed syllable surface tone Surinam syllable bearing syllable nucleus system of prominence tonal tone bearing unit tone languages tone phrase tone shift underlying H-tone underlyingly utterance final position varieties of Anglo-West varieties spoken vocative vowel lengthening vowel system West African languages word boundary word final syllable word initial Yoruba