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The emergence of systems of lexical and grammatical tone and stress in Caribbean and West African Creoles
The complex contact situation that developed among speakers of Niger-Congo and Indo-European languages in the Caribbean during the era of colonial plantation slav-ery gave rise to creoles with similarly complex pitch-related suprasegmental systems...
Keywords: tone, stress, typology, substrate influence, complexity
02/2006 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie VerlagCorrelating complexity: A typological approach
Proceeding from the assumption that all languages are equally complex, there exists a corollary, widely held but poorly documented, herein referred to as the negative correlation hypothesis...
Keywords: complexity, inflection, inflectional synthesis, morphology, phonology, syllable
07/2006 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter