The Emergence of Creole Syllable Structure : : A Cross-linguistic Study / / Mareile Schramm.
This book investigates syllable structure and phonotactic restructuring in six Caribbean creoles with Dutch, English and French as main lexifier languages. The earliest reliable data available for each creole are analysed statistically to determine which lexifier structures are retained in the creol...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Linguistische Arbeiten ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Abbreviations and notational conventions
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Creole genesis and syllable structure
- 3. Data and Methodology
- 4. Syllable structure and phonotactic restructuring in the Dutch-based creoles
- 5. Syllable structure and phonotactic restructuring in the English-based creoles
- 6. Syllable structure and phonotactic restructuring in the French-based creoles
- 7. Syllable structure in the six creoles: Similarities and differences
- 8. Explaining creole phonotactic restructuring
- 9. Creole syllable structure: A final assessment
- Bibliography