Vowels in Malacca Portuguese Creole

Pillai, Stefanie; En, Chan Min; Baxter, Alan Norman

dc.contributor.author	Pillai, Stefanie	en
dc.contributor.author	En, Chan Min	en
dc.contributor.author	Baxter, Alan Norman	en
dc.date.accessioned	2016-03-17T10:05:18Z
dc.date.available	2016-03-17T10:05:18Z
dc.date.issued	2016-03-10	en
dc.identifier.issn	1731-7533	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/17456
dc.description.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.	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Research in Language;13	en
dc.rights	This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0	en
dc.subject	Malacca Portuguese Creole (MPC)	en
dc.subject	Kristang	en
dc.subject	vowels	en
dc.subject	acoustic	en
dc.title	Vowels in Malacca Portuguese Creole	en
dc.page.number	248-265	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Pillai, Stefanie - University of Malaya, Malaysia	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	En, Chan Min - University of Malaya, Malaysia	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Baxter, Alan Norman - Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil	en
dc.identifier.eissn	2083-4616
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	Pillai, Stefanie - stefanie@um,edu.my	en
dc.contributor.authorEmail	En, Chan Min - mimi_cme85@yahoo.com.hk	en
dc.contributor.authorEmail	Baxter, Alan Norman - alannbaxter@gmail.com	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1515/rela-2015-0024	en

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