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Clash avoidance and metrical opacity in Singapore English
Some word accentuation patterns in Singapore English are metrically opaque with abutting stressed syllables, eg...
Keywords: stress, Singapore English, stress clash, metrical foot, rhythm
02/2006 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie VerlagThe 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 VerlagLanguage contact and Michif stress assignment
This paper examines stress assignment in Michif, a contact language with its roots in French and Plains Cree, and spoken by a few hundred Métis today in Canada and the United States...
Keywords: mixed language, stress, split phonology, metrical foot, language contact
02/2006 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie VerlagStress assignment and functions of pitch in Vincentian Creole
Previous research on Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles (CECs) has underlined the importance of suprasegmentals in understanding the Creole lexicon...
Keywords: intonation, pitch, stress, prosodic organization
02/2006 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag