Examples of this process include: 'rice', compare French du riz 'old', compare French vieux 'mouth', compare French gueule Vowel lowering The open-mid vowel may lowered to the near-open vowel when followed by , e.g. 'brother'. Regressive and progressive nasalization of vowels In common with Louisiana French, Louisiana Creole vowels are nasalized where they precede a nasal consonant, e.g. 'young', 'apple'. Unlike most varieties of Louisiana French, Louisiana Creole also exhibits progressive nasalization: vowels following a nasal consonant are nasalized, e.g. 'know'. Grammar Louisiana Creole exhibits subject-verb-object (SVO) word order. Determiners In nineteenth century sources, determiners in Louisiana Creole appear related to specificity. Bare nouns are non-specific. As for specific nouns, if the noun is pre-supposed it took a definite determiner (-la, singular; -la-ye, plural) or by an indefinite determiner (en, singular; de or -ye, plural). Today, definite articles in Louisiana Creole vary between the le, la and lê, placed before the noun as in Louisiana French, and post-positional definite determiners -la for the singular, and -yé for the plural. This variation is but one example of the influence of Louisiana French on Louisiana Creole, especially in the variety spoken along the Bayou Têche which has been characterized by some linguists as decreolized, though this notion is controversial. Some speakers of that variety display a highly variable system of number and gender agreement, as evidenced in possessive pronouns. Personal pronouns Possession is shown by noun-noun possessum-possessor constructions (e.g. lamézon mô papa 'house (of) my grandfather') or with the preposition a (e.g. lamézon a mô papa 'house of my grandfather'). Verbs Verbal morphology Older forms of Louisiana Creole featured only one form of each verb without any inflection, e.g. 'to eat'. Today, the language typically features two verb classes: verbs with only a single form ( 'to drink') and verbs with a 'long' or 'short' form (, 'to eat'). Tense, aspect, mood Like other creole languages, Louisiana Creole features preverbal markers of tense, aspect and mood as listed in the table below Vocabulary The vocabulary of Louisiana Creole is primarily of French origin, as French is the language's lexifier. Some local vocabulary, such as topography, animals, plants are of Amerindian origin. In the domains folklore and Voodoo, the language has a small number of vocabulary items from west and central African languages. Much of this non-French vocabulary is shared with other French-based creole languages of North America, and Louisiana Creole shares all