Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations
Edited by J. Clancy Clements and Shelome Gooden
[Benjamins Current Topics, 36] 2011. v, 241 pp.
Shelome Gooden
List of John Benjamins publications for which Shelome Gooden plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Typology
Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations
Edited by J. Clancy Clements and Shelome Gooden
Special issue of Studies in Language 33:2 (2009) 250 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Articles
2023 Sociophonetic variation in the alveolar lateral in Yami Asia-Pacific Language Variation 9:2, pp. 195–238 | Article
This paper examines lateral (/l/) variation in Yami, an indigenous language of Orchid Island, Taiwan. New acoustic evidence on F2–F1 distance and duration shows that palatalized laterals [lj] in Yami are characterized by greater formant distance and longer duration. These acoustic correlates are… read more
2011 Language change in contact languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations: An introduction Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
2011 Tone inventories and tune-text alignments: Prosodic variation in ‘hybrid’ prosodic systems Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden (eds.), pp. 137–176 | Article
The “hybrid” prosodic systems described for several Caribbean creoles challenge typologies that dichotomize between “intonation languages” and “tone languages” or between “stress” and “pitch-accent” languages. A more nuanced differentiation emerges if languages are compared in terms of questions… read more
2010 Review of Schneider (2008): Varieties of English
The Americas and the Caribbean English World-Wide 31:1, pp. 90–93 | Review
2009 Language change in contact languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations: An introduction Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden (eds.), pp. 259–276 | Article
2009 Tone inventories and tune-text alignments: Prosodic variation in ‘hybrid’ prosodic systems Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden (eds.), pp. 396–436 | Article
The “hybrid” prosodic systems described for several Caribbean creoles challenge typologies that dichotomize between “intonation languages” and “tone languages” or between “stress” and “pitch-accent” languages. A more nuanced differentiation emerges if languages are compared in terms of questions… read more
2008 Discourse aspects of tense marking in Belizean Creole English World-Wide 29:3, pp. 306–346 | Article
Debates on the relationship between the aspectual properties of verbs and past marking in Caribbean English Creoles tend to focus on two main issues. The first is the semantic function of the “relative past” and its relation to the unmarked verb, and the second is the discourse functions of the… read more
2007 4. Morphophonological properties of pitch accents in Jamaican Creole reduplication Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages, Huber, Magnus and Viveka Velupillai (eds.), pp. 67–90 | Article