Some remarks on the “Proposals for the orthography of Bamanankan”

Dumestre, Gérard

doi:10.4000/mandenkan.326

Cited by 1 publication

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Susu (Mande, Guinea) only has the three tone patterns H, H-L, and L-H over mono- and disyllabic nouns (nouns with more syllables are not very common) ( Green et al, 2013 ). Two tone patterns, H and L-H, cover ninety per cent of the lexicon of Bambara (Mande, Mali) ( Dumestre, 2003 , 22).…”

Section: Creole Prosodic Systems Are Areal Not Simplementioning

confidence: 99%

Creole Prosodic Systems Are Areal, Not Simple

Yakpo

2021

Front. Psychol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

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.

show abstract

Section: Creole Prosodic Systems Are Areal Not Simplementioning

confidence: 99%

Creole Prosodic Systems Are Areal, Not Simple

Yakpo

2021

Front. Psychol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Some remarks on the “Proposals for the orthography of Bamanankan”

Cited by 1 publication

References 0 publications

Creole Prosodic Systems Are Areal, Not Simple

Creole Prosodic Systems Are Areal, Not Simple

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About