Tone and stress in papiamentu: The contribution of a constraint-based analysis to the problem of creole genesis

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 297-334

  Rivera Castillo, Yolanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bantu; Constraint based; Declarative; Papiamentu; Phonology; Stress; Substratum; Tone

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989364738     PISSN: 09209034     EISSN: 15699870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jpcl.13.2.04riv     Document Type: Article

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