Competences in contact / Eric Louis Russel

Russel, Eric Louis

Amsterdam/ Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company,

"This article examine phonological changes brought about by creole-lexifier contact, with secondary focus on the distinction of these changes from those occurring in creole formation. It is argued that lexifier-targeted change involves declarative competence : knowledge of what is and isn't part of a phonological inventory. It is further argued that such changes do not undo the past but involve historically innovative modifications to grammatical competences, which subsequently inform productive and perceptual knowledge. A formal account of Guadeloupian vowel data is proposed, which also addresses differential outcomes such as instances of apparent hypercorrection."

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

0920-9034

Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Martinique,