Sri Lanka Creole Portuguese Phonology

19th century SLCP affixes allophones Batticaloa Portuguese BP and BT BT and BP Ceylon Colombo contrastive vowel length creole Portuguese Dalgado Degemination Dutch Dutch Burghers EMPH English environment Epenthesis examples ǝkǝ forms geminate glides grammar indigenous influence indigenous languages Indo-Portuguese initial syllable intervocalic intervocalic clusters lengthening linguistic long vowel Mangalore morpheme morphological N₂ nasals negative NEGPOT non-initial syllables noun occur optional palatals papiya past participle phonetic phonological change pidgin Portuguese Burghers postpositions prepositional PRES CNC QUOT rare relative clause retracted retroflex consonants sentences short stressed vowels short vowels Sinhala sound change speakers Spirantization spoken Sri Lanka Portuguese stress shifting suffix syllable syllable final syllable vowels syntactic Table Tamil influence tense tion underlying representations unrounding unstressed variants Vasconcellos verb voiced voiceless consonants voiceless stops Vowel Harmony vowel length word boundary