The Status of Sango in Fact and Fiction. On the one-hundredth anniversary of its conception

Samarin, William J.

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“…Sango is an African-lexifier creole that emerged as a trade language in the area around the Ubangui River toward the end of the nineteenth century (Pasch 1993, Samarin 2000. The bulk of its lexicon is derived from the Ubangian language Ngbandi.…”

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Romancing with tone: On the outcomes of prosodic contact

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Yakpo²

2020

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This article presents a descriptive and theoretical framework for the analysis of prosodic systems that have emerged from contact between African tone and European intonation-only languages. A comparative study of the prosodic systems of two Romance contact varieties, Central African French and Equatorial Guinean Spanish, shows that they feature two-tone systems, fixed word-tone patterns, tonal minimal pairs, the arbitrary assignment of tone in function words, and tonal processes. Evidence from further contact varieties and creole languages shows that similar systems evolved in other Afro-European contact ecologies. We conclude that tone is imposed by default on contact varieties and creoles that take shape in ecologies characterized by sourcelanguage agentivity in tone languages. In doing so, we argue against claims that tone necessarily cedes to stress during language contact and creolization. Instead, contact varieties and creoles partake just like other languages in the convergence processes that lead to the areal clustering of prosodic systems.*

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“…Sango (CAR). Sango has three phonological level tones: low (L), mid (M), and high (H) (Pasch 1993, Walker & Samarin 1997, Samarin 2000. Words have a maximal tonal density.…”

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Romancing with tone: On the outcomes of prosodic contact

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Yakpo²

2020

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This book examines the variation found in modern spoken French, based on the research programme ‘Phonology of Contemporary French’ (Phonologie du Français Contemporain, PFC). Extensive data are drawn from around the French-speaking world, including Algeria, Canada, Louisiana, Mauritius, and Switzerland. Although the principal focus is on differences in pronunciation, the authors also analyse the spoken language at all levels from sound to meaning. The book is accompanied by a website hosting audio-visual material for teaching purposes, data, and a variety of tools for working with corpora. The first part of the book outlines some key concepts and approaches to the description of spoken French. Part II is devoted to the study of individual samples of spoken French from around the world, covering phonological and grammatical features as well as lexical and cultural aspects. The companion website provides a classroom-friendly ready-to-use multimedia version of the 17 chapters in this part, as well as a full transcription of each extract and the sound files. Part III looks at inter- and intra-speaker variation: the opening chapters provide a methodological background to the study of phonological variation using databases, while in the second section, authors present case studies of a number of PFC survey points, including Paris, the Central African Republic, and Québec. Varieties of Spoken French will be an invaluable resource for researchers, teachers, and students of all aspects of French language and linguistics.

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The Status of Sango in Fact and Fiction. On the one-hundredth anniversary of its conception

Cited by 49 publications

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Romancing with tone: On the outcomes of prosodic contact

Romancing with tone: On the outcomes of prosodic contact

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Varieties of Spoken French

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