Shelome Gooden

List of John Benjamins publications in which Shelome Gooden is involved.

Titles

Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations

Edited by J. Clancy Clements and Shelome Gooden

The studies in Language Change in Contact Languages showcase the contributions that the study of contact language varieties make to the understanding of phenomena such as relexification, transfer, reanalysis, grammaticalization, prosodic variation and the development of prosodic systems. Four of… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 36] 2011. v, 241 pp.

Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations

Edited by J. Clancy Clements and Shelome Gooden

Special issue of Studies in Language 33:2 (2009) 250 pp.

Articles (8) | Order by:

Lai, Li-Fang and Shelome Gooden 2023 Sociophonetic variation in the alveolar lateral in Yami Asia-Pacific Language Variation 9:2, pp. 195–238 | Article

This paper examines lateral (/l/) variation in Yami, an indigenous language of Orchid Island, Taiwan. New acoustic evidence on F2–F1 distance and duration shows that palatalized laterals [lj] in Yami are characterized by greater formant distance and longer duration. These acoustic correlates are… read more

Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden 2011 Language change in contact languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations: An introduction Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article

Gooden, Shelome, Kathy-Ann Drayton and Mary E. Beckman 2011 Tone inventories and tune-text alignments: Prosodic variation in ‘hybrid’ prosodic systems Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden (eds.), pp. 137–176 | Article

The “hybrid” prosodic systems described for several Caribbean creoles challenge typologies that dichotomize between “intonation languages” and “tone languages” or between “stress” and “pitch-accent” languages. A more nuanced differentiation emerges if languages are compared in terms of questions… read more

Gooden, Shelome 2010 Review of Schneider (2008): Varieties of English The Americas and the Caribbean English World-Wide 31:1, pp. 90–93 | Review

Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden 2009 Language change in contact languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations: An introduction Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden (eds.), pp. 259–276 | Article

Gooden, Shelome, Kathy-Ann Drayton and Mary E. Beckman 2009 Tone inventories and tune-text alignments: Prosodic variation in ‘hybrid’ prosodic systems Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden (eds.), pp. 396–436 | Article

Gooden, Shelome 2008 Discourse aspects of tense marking in Belizean Creole English World-Wide 29:3, pp. 306–346 | Article

Debates on the relationship between the aspectual properties of verbs and past marking in Caribbean English Creoles tend to focus on two main issues. The first is the semantic function of the “relative past” and its relation to the unmarked verb, and the second is the discourse functions of the… read more

Gooden, Shelome 2007 4. Morphophonological properties of pitch accents in Jamaican Creole reduplication Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages, Huber, Magnus and Viveka Velupillai (eds.), pp. 67–90 | Article