Generative Phonology of Haitian Creole

affixes alternation apé Apheresis applies aspect particles bèl borrowed chapter clos closed syllables co-occur consonantal constraints contemporary Haitian correspondence rules deep-structural definite article deleted derived English environment evolution fact feature followed French cognates French Creoles French Haitian French phonologies fricative front vowels gender glide grammar Haitian and French HAITIAN CREOLE Hall lexical entries lexicon linguistic matrix mid vowels modern French morpheme morpheme boundary morpheme-final position morphology morphophonemic nasal consonant nasal vowel noun NP's null obstruent occur open syllables optional oral parẽ pasé frè-1 personal pronouns phonological phonological component pitit plural Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince Haitian possessive adjective prefix preposed reduplication reflex rélé šak schwa sẽ Segment Structure Condition Sequence Structure Conditions standard French suffix superficial Sylvain syntactic systematic phonemes tense transformations underlying representations unrounding verbs vowel harmony word-final position words