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| Title: | Stress, tone and discourse prominence in the Curaçao dialect of Papiamentu |
| Author: | Bert Remijsen |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Homepage: | http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~bert |
| Institution: | University of Edinburgh |
| Author: | Vincent J. van Heuven |
| Institution: | Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT) |
| Linguistic Field: | Phonetics; Phonology |
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Papiamento
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| Abstract: | This paper investigates the word-prosodic system of the Curaçao dialect of Papiamentu. Curaçao Papiamentu has both lexically distinctive stress and, independently, a word-level tone contrast. On the basis of a detailed acoustic investigation of this tonal contrast, we propose a privative phonological interpretation of the tone contrast, similar to proposals for the Scandinavian word-accent systems (Riad 1998, to appear). As compared to previous treatments of Curaçao Papiamentu word prosody, our hypothesis makes crucial reference to intonation and to tonal underspecification. We also investigate the realisation of primary and secondary stress in Curaçao Papiamentu. |
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This article appears in Phonology Vol. 22, Issue 2, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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