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Split prosody and creole simplicity: The case of Saramaccan
(AEJPL, 2004)
Saramaccan, an Atlantic creole whose lexifier languages are Portuguese and
English, has a “split” prosodic system wherein the majority of its words are
marked for pitch accent but an important minority are marked for ...
Tone and accent in Saramaccan: Charting a deep split in the phonology of a language
(Elsevier, 2004)
Saramaccan, an Atlantic creole spoken in Surinam, has traditionally been analyzed as exhibiting
a high-tone/low-tone opposition in its lexicon. However, while it is true that part
of its lexicon exhibits a robust high/low ...