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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 Verlag
Tonal phenomena in Sranan

It has always been assumed that the coastal creole of Suriname, Sranan, was a completely non-tonal language...

Keywords: tone, register, intensive form, ideophones

02/2006 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag