Partícula interrogativa e pitch-accent frasal nas perguntas polares em fa d’Ambô

Agostinho, Ana Lívia; Araujo, Gabriel Antunes de; Santos, Eduardo Ferreira dos

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“…A further, seemingly pan-Caribbean intonational feature with parallels in the tonal substrates is an utterance-final fall in wh-questions ( Sutcliffe, 2003 ), which corresponds to ‘lax question intonation’, a Macro-Sudan areal feature of Africa ( Güldemann, 2018 , 481). Lax intonation has also been described for the Gulf of Guinea Portuguese-lexifier Creoles ( Agostinho et al, 2019 ).…”

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

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Creole Prosodic Systems Are Areal, Not Simple

Yakpo

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…Príncipe received a small number of prisoners from Bantu regions in contrast to São Tomé that continued to receive a large Bantu input (Hagemeijer 2011). 5 Contrary to Ferraz (1979), who considered both Edoid 6 and Bantu languages to be the main substrates of the Gulf of Guinea creoles, the current view on their history is that languages from the Niger Delta, particularly Edoid languages, were the main substrate, while Bantu languages, such as Kikongo and Kimbundu, played a secondary role (Hagemeijer 2011; see also Agostinho et al 2019;Ladhams 2012) (see Map 2). Ladhams (2012) shows that Lung'Ie has the lowest percentage of Bantu words and the highest percentage of Edo words compared to the other Gulf of Guinea creoles.…”

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Word Prosody in Lung’Ie: One System or Two?

Agostinho

Hyman

2021

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Creole languages have generally not figured prominently in cross-linguistic studies of word-prosodic typology. In this paper, we present a phonological analysis of the prosodic system of Lung’Ie or Principense (ISO 639-3 code: pre), a Portuguese-lexifier creole language spoken in São Tomé and Príncipe. Lung’Ie has produced a unique result of the contact between the two different prosodic systems common in creolization: a stress-accent lexifier and tone language substrates. The language has a restrictive privative H/Ø tone system, in which the /H/ is culminative, but non-obligatory. Since rising and falling tones are contrastive on long vowels, the tone must be marked underlyingly. While it is clear that tonal indications are needed, Lung’Ie reveals two properties more expected of an accentual system: (i) there can only be one heavy syllable per word; (ii) this syllable must bear a H tone. This raises the question of whether syllables with a culminative H also have metrical prominence, i.e. stress. However, the problem with equating stress with H tone is that Lung’Ie has two kinds of nouns: those with a culminative H and those which are toneless. The nouns with culminative H are 87% of Portuguese origin, incorporated through stress-to-tone alignment, while the toneless ones are 92% of African origin. Although other creole languages have been reported with split systems of “accented” vs. fully specified tonal lexemes, and others with mixed systems of tone and stress, Lung’Ie differs from these cases in treating African origin words as toneless, a quite surprising result. We consider different analyses and conclude that Lung’Ie has a privative /H/ tone system with the single unusual stress-like property of weight-to-tone.

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Word prosody of African versus European-origin words in Afro-European creoles

Agostinho

2023

Linguistic Typology

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This paper is concerned with word-prosodic systems of Afro-European creole languages that show a correlation between the lexical origin (African vs. European) and prosodic pattern. The discussion is based on the evidence from four languages: Saramaccan, Nigerian Pidgin English, Pichi, and Lung’Ie. I examine how the study of word-prosodic systems of creoles can contribute to phonological typology and to the debate of whether creoles are different from non-creoles. I hypothesize that such systems are the result of extreme language contact and can only be found in creole languages. The existence of these systems further confirms that sociohistorical processes – such as historic contact – can shape phonological systems. Finally, I conclude that the analysis of African-origin words is crucial to further our understanding of creole phonology.

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Partícula interrogativa e pitch-accent frasal nas perguntas polares em fa d’Ambô

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Creole Prosodic Systems Are Areal, Not Simple

Creole Prosodic Systems Are Areal, Not Simple

Word Prosody in Lung’Ie: One System or Two?

Word prosody of African versus European-origin words in Afro-European creoles

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