Syllable restructuring in early Solomon Islands Pidgin English

The present paper looks at the various syllable restructuring strategies used in early Solomon Islands Pidgin English. These depend on the phonological shape of the etyma and consist of epenthesis, paragoge and consonant deletion. Also examined is the quality of the epenthetic and of the paragogic v...

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Main Author: Andrei A. Avram
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2007-01-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/syllable_restructuring_in_early_solomon_islands_pidgin_english