i-iv -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Section 1: Segmental aspects -- Creole phonology typology: Phoneme inventory size, vowel quality distinctions and stop consonant series -- The origin of the liquid consonant in Saotomense Creole -- Toward a phonology of obstruent voicing in Negerhollands -- Population movements, colonial control and vowel systems -- Section 2: Syllabic aspects -- Empty positions in Haitian Creole syllable structure -- The phonological origin of language: Creole languages as a testing ground -- Early Creole syllable structure: A cross-linguistic survey of the earliest attested varieties of Saramaccan, Sranan, St. Kitts and Jamaican -- Section 3: Morphological aspects -- Logophoricity in Nigerian Pidgin English: An empirical study of variable third person singular subject marking -- English in the New World: continuity and change, the case of personal pronouns in Guyanese English -- Head ordering in synthetic compounding: Acquisition processes and Creole genesis -- On the presence versus absence of morphological marking in four Romance-based Creoles