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- Title
Vowels in Malacca Portuguese Creole.
- Authors
Pillai, Stefanie; En, Chan Min; Baxter, Alan Norman
- Abstract
This paper examines the vowel system of present day Malacca Portuguese Creole (MPC) or Kristang, based on recordings from interviews with five female native speakers of MPC. A total of 1083 monophthongs were extracted from the recordings. The first and second formants of these vowels were measured and analysed. Considerable variation was found within and between the speakers in the way each of the vowels was produced. There were also noticeable overlaps between /i/ and /e/ suggesting that they were being used interchangeably. The quality of some of the vowels found in this study was also found to be different from those previously described. Based on the reduced vowel inventory, the variation in the way that vowels are produced, and the overlaps between vowels, the findings suggest the possibility of phonological instability of this endangered language.
- Subjects
ENGLISH as a foreign language; CREOLES; NON-English speaking people; VOWELS; NATIVE language; KRISTANG language
- Publication
Research in Language, 2015, Vol 13, Issue 3, p248
- ISSN
1731-7533
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/rela-2015-0024