The perfect in English-lexifier pidgins and creoles

Hackert, Stephanie

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“…With the end of the European slave trade in the 19th century, the proportion of L1 speakers of African tone languages began to decline. Throughout the 20th century, socio-economic change led to the partial erosion of racialized social stratification, while formal education in the standardized European varieties of colonial languages was expanded ( Yakpo, 2015 ; also Hackert, 2019 , 225).…”

Section: Afro-european Contact Prosodic Systems Show An Areal Distribution Across the Atlanticmentioning

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Creole Prosodic Systems Are Areal, Not Simple

Yakpo

2021

Front. Psychol.

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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 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.

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Section: Afro-european Contact Prosodic Systems Show An Areal Distribution Across the Atlanticmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creole Prosodic Systems Are Areal, Not Simple

Yakpo

2021

Front. Psychol.

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English and Spanish

Inofuentes¹,

Hundt²,

Kabatek³

et al. 2021

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This volume compares the evolution and current status of two of the world's major languages, English and Spanish. Parallel chapters trace the emergence of Global English and Spanish and their current status, covering aspects such as language and dialect contact, language typology, norm development in pluricentric languages, and identity construction. Case studies look into the use of English and Spanish on the internet, investigate mixed and alternating lects, as well as ongoing change in Spanish-speaking minorities in the US. The volume thus contributes to current theoretical debates and provides fresh empirical data. While offering an in-depth treatment of the evolution of English and Spanish to the reader, this book introduces the driving factors and the effects of the emergence of world languages in general and is relevant for researchers and students of sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and typology alike.

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