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Example 55-52
en sát vs. én sát
en
a
sát
cat
vs.
vs.
én
one
sát
cat
a cat vs. one cat
Comment:
The acute is used to mark stress in the examples. Indefinite
en
is always without stress but the numeral is always stressed.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Mauritian Creole
by
Philip Baker
and
Sibylle Kriegel
cite
Datapoints:
Indefinite articles: Indefinite article identical to numeral ‘one’
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