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La créolistique : arguments pour une approche sociohistorique
Contextes et Didactiques, 2021 Creole languages belong to the more general category of contact languages, which also includes pidgins. The aim of this article is to determine to what extent it is possible to define the object of creolistics as a specific linguistic field of research ...
Jean-Philippe Watbled
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Contextes et Didactiques, 2021 The objective of this contribution is to offer an exploratory, descriptive and ecolinguistic approach to actual scriptural practices of Creole in the visual landscape in Guadeloupe. It is based on the idea that this French lexically based Creole is first
Frédéric Anciaux +1 more
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Creole Prosodic Systems Are Areal, Not Simple
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 This study refutes the common idea that tone gets simplified or eliminated in creoles and contact languages. Speakers of African tone languages imposed tone systems on all Afro-European creoles spoken in the tone-dominant linguistic ecologies of Africa ...
Kofi Yakpo
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2004 This special number of the Portuguese Journal of Linguistics contains six articles on various aspects of Portuguese-lexifier creole languages and other creole languages that have been significantly influenced by Portuguese.
Renaud Beeckmans
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Split prosody and creole simplicity - The case of Saramaccan
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2004 Saramaccan, an Atlantic creole whose lexifier languages are Portuguese and English, has a “split” prosodic system wherein the majority of its words are marked for pitch accent but an important minority are marked for tone.
Jeff Good
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O „cudownych formacjach”, czyli rzecz o językach kreolskich
LingVaria, 2018 What Shall be Understood under Creole Language? Creole languages are being formed as a result of language contact in multicultural and multilingual societies.
Barbara Hlibowicka-Węglarz
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2008 Let me start by quoting the provocative last sentence of the last paper in this volume, which questions “(…) the very validity of the field of Linguistics called Creole and the validity of a categorisation of a group of the languages of the world under a
Tjerk Hagemeijer
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Asymmetrical Complexity in Languages Due to L2 Effects: Unserdeutsch and Beyond
Languages, 2020 This study examines asymmetries between so-called inherent and contextual categories in relation to the morphological complexity of the nominal and verbal inflectional domain of languages.
Siegwalt Lindenfelser
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Lugawiyyat, 2021 Language is speech, as Ibn Jinni defined it. This definition goes to the growth of the spoken language in society. It is well known that the spoken language is more developed and used than the written language.
Makhi Ulil Kirom
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Language and Jamaican Literature
Altre Modernità, 2019 Disrespected literatures are written in disrespected languages. Languages are usually disrespected when the status of the people who speak them is low. In postplantation societies the respected language is the European language brought by the people who ...
Velma Pollard
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