Abstract

A phonetic-phonological description of Haitian Creole spoken by native Creole speakers residing in the Province of Concepcion is presented in this paper. A lexical list of 133 items and, in some cases, a set of ad hoc images were used to elicit the data. The sample consisted of four males and two females. The reference framework used is the (neo)distributional one, commonly used in the description of vernaculars in Chile. Some prominent conclusions of this work are the following: the opening and nasalization have phonemic status in some vowels (/e, o/, versus /epsilon, (sic)/; /a, e, o/ versus /(a) over tilde, (e) over tilde, (o) over tilde/), some consonants show great allophonic variation (for example, in the phonemes /p, t, k/), there is a phonological opposition between voiced and voiceless fricative consonants (/f/ versus /v/, /s/ versus /z/ and /integral/ versus /3/), and there are no approximant realizations of the voiced occlusive phonemes.