Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Section 1: Segmental aspects
6. Creole phonology typology: Phoneme inventory size, vowel quality distinctions and stop consonant series 3
7. The origin of the liquid consonant in Saotomense Creole 23
8. Toward a phonology of obstruent voicing in Negerhollands 39
9. Population movements, colonial control and vowel systems 59
10. Section 2: Syllabic aspects
11. Empty positions in Haitian Creole syllable structure 85
12. The phonological origin of language: Creole languages as a testing ground 107
13. Early Creole syllable structure: A cross-linguistic survey of the earliest attested varieties of Saramaccan, Sranan, St. Kitts and Jamaican 131
14. Section 3: Morphological aspects
15. Logophoricity in Nigerian Pidgin English: An empirical study of variable third person singular subject marking 153
16. English in the New World: continuity and change, the case of personal pronouns in Guyanese English 179
17. Head ordering in synthetic compounding: Acquisition processes and Creole genesis 201
18. On the presence versus absence of morphological marking in four Romance-based Creoles 223