14 Oct 2003

Bert Remijsen, Vincent van Heuven and Farienne Martis

In the field of prosody, the word-accent type is well-known from Swedish and Serbocroatian. In these languages, the stressed syllable can have either of two tonal patterns, distinct from one another in terms of alignment. In this paper, we argue that such an analysis is also appropriate for Papiamentu, a Caribbean creole. In addition, however, Papiamentu word-accent interacts with an independent lexical stress feature. And also, the choice of word-accent is partly determined by morphosyntactic considerations.

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