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Article: Creole prosodic systems are areal, not simple
Title | Creole prosodic systems are areal, not simple |
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Keywords | Simplification Prosodic system Stress Tone Creole Linguistic ecology Language contact Areal convergence |
Issue Date | 2021 |
Publisher | Frontiers Research Foundation. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.frontiersin.org/psychology |
Citation | Frontiers in Psychology, 2021, v. 12, article no. 690593 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This study refutes the common idea that tone gets simplified or eliminated in creoles and contact languages. Speakers of African tone languages imposed tone systems on all Afro-European creoles spoken in the tone-dominant linguistic ecologies of Africa and the colonial Americas. African speakers of tone languages also imposed tone systems on the colonial varieties of English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese spoken in tonal Africa. A crucial mechanism involved in the emergence of the tone systems of creoles and colonial varieties is stress-to-tone mapping. A typological comparison with African non-creole languages shows that creole tone systems are on average no simpler than African non-creole tone systems. Demographic, linguistic, and social changes in an ecology can lead to switches from tone to stress systems and vice versa. As a result, there is an areal continuum of tone systems roughly coterminous with the presence of tone in the east (Africa) and stress in the west (Americas). Transitional systems combining features of tone and stress converge on the areal buffer zone of the Caribbean. The prosodic systems of creoles and European colonial varieties undergo regular processes of contact, typological change and areal convergence. None of these are specific to creoles. So far, creoles and colonial varieties have not featured in work on the world-wide areal clustering of prosodic systems. This study therefore aims to contribute to a broader perspective on prosodic contact beyond the narrow confines of the creole simplicity debate. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/304116 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.6 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.800 |
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dc.contributor.author | Yakpo, K | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-23T08:55:27Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-09-23T08:55:27Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Frontiers in Psychology, 2021, v. 12, article no. 690593 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1664-1078 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/304116 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This study refutes the common idea that tone gets simplified or eliminated in creoles and contact languages. Speakers of African tone languages imposed tone systems on all Afro-European creoles spoken in the tone-dominant linguistic ecologies of Africa and the colonial Americas. African speakers of tone languages also imposed tone systems on the colonial varieties of English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese spoken in tonal Africa. A crucial mechanism involved in the emergence of the tone systems of creoles and colonial varieties is stress-to-tone mapping. A typological comparison with African non-creole languages shows that creole tone systems are on average no simpler than African non-creole tone systems. Demographic, linguistic, and social changes in an ecology can lead to switches from tone to stress systems and vice versa. As a result, there is an areal continuum of tone systems roughly coterminous with the presence of tone in the east (Africa) and stress in the west (Americas). Transitional systems combining features of tone and stress converge on the areal buffer zone of the Caribbean. The prosodic systems of creoles and European colonial varieties undergo regular processes of contact, typological change and areal convergence. None of these are specific to creoles. So far, creoles and colonial varieties have not featured in work on the world-wide areal clustering of prosodic systems. This study therefore aims to contribute to a broader perspective on prosodic contact beyond the narrow confines of the creole simplicity debate. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Frontiers Research Foundation. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.frontiersin.org/psychology | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Frontiers in Psychology | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | Simplification | - |
dc.subject | Prosodic system | - |
dc.subject | Stress | - |
dc.subject | Tone | - |
dc.subject | Creole | - |
dc.subject | Linguistic ecology | - |
dc.subject | Language contact | - |
dc.subject | Areal convergence | - |
dc.title | Creole prosodic systems are areal, not simple | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Yakpo, K: kofi@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Yakpo, K=rp01715 | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.690593 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85118859521 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 324943 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 12 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | article no. 690593 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | article no. 690593 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000717594200001 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Switzerland | - |