Typology of creole phonology: Phoneme inventories and syllable templates

@article{Klein2011TypologyOC,
  title={Typology of creole phonology: Phoneme inventories and syllable templates},
  author={Thomas B. Klein},
  journal={Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages},
  year={2011},
  volume={26},
  pages={155-193}
}
  • T. B. Klein
  • Published 2011
  • Linguistics
  • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
This paper reports on the analysis of a typological database of creole phoneme inventories and surface syllables. The sample encompasses a balanced set of creole languages lexified by Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages. The results of the analysis demonstrate that most creole languages exhibit between twenty and thirty-seven contrastive segments, between five and seven phonemic vowel qualities, and between two and three stop series. No creoles show only CV, and many display CCVC… 
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