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Haitian Creole: Surface phonology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Bruce Lee Johnson  and
Gérard Alphonse-Férère
Bruce Lee Johnson
Affiliation:
(Saint Joseph's College, Philadelphia)
Gérard Alphonse-Férère
Affiliation:
(Saint Joseph's College, Philadelphia)
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In this paper we restrict ourselves to the dialect of the proletariat of Port-au-Prince. Accordingly, we have nothing to say about the differences between this dialect and others, but it is worth mentioning that our sketch of the phonology does apply in general to other dialects. The variations we ignore are largely subphonemic. Further, we have omitted any reference to the so-called ‘Gallicizing’ dialect or dialects and thus exclude from the system the segments /y ø œ Ч/, which occur sporadically in the speech of some individuals.

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , December 1972 , pp. 35 - 39
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1972

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