Investigates the retention of rhotic sounds in Iberian-based creole languages, suggesting predictability in their preservation.
This study addresses the question of whether the 15th-19th-century Portuguese/Spanish phonemic and allophonic distinctions between the alveolar rhotic flap /ɾ/ and the alveolar rhotic trill /r/ are retained in a number of Iberian-based creole languages and whether this is predictable. It is argued that, to some extent, the retention can be predicted.
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