Phonetic correlates of stress and tone in a mixed system

Abstract

The description of Atlantic Creoles has relied mostly on comparative studies with intonational languages. However, there are few corresponding tonal properties between Atlantic Creoles with tonal systems and their Indo-European lexifiers. The description of the tonal systems of these Creoles must precede any comparative study with intonational languages. This research supplements previous phonological descriptions of Papiamentu, an Atlantic Creole spoken in the Netherlands Antilles, St. Maarten, St. Eustatius, and Saba, through the use of experimental data focusing on tone and stress distinctions and their phonetic correlates. This paper expands initial descriptions of the tone and stress systems in Papiamentu (as it is spoken by an Aruban speaker) to include instrumental analysis of prosodic characteristics including numerical analysis of frequency and length in monosyllables and polysyllabic words.

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