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Skepi Dutch Creole : the Youd papers
, 2020 In this article we present newly found lexical and grammatical data pertaining to Skepi, the Dutch-lexified creole which is now extinct but was once widespread in the Essequibo area of what is today the Republic of Guyana. The source of this new material
Jacobs, Bart +2 more
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Acquisition of the Closing Diphthongs /əʊ/ and /eɪ/ in English L2 and Jamaican Creole
SAGE Open, 2015 This study investigates the claim that the strategies used by second/foreign language learners are, more or less, the same as those used by speakers of pidgin/creole languages.
Ahmed Mousa
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Using Texts as Megaphones: The Power of African American Readers Hearing Themselves in Books
The Reading Teacher, Volume 80, Issue 3, November/December 2026.ABSTRACT This article highlights the power of authentic children's literature to affirm African American English as a legitimate, rule‐governed linguistic system and elevate it as a source of cognitive strength, cultural richness, and academic potential.
Ramona T. Pittman +3 more
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Creole typology is analytic typology
, 2019 This paper reviews a number of specific features typical of analytic languages, in an attempt to investigate whether Creole languages can indeed be grouped, at least structurally, with other languages of the analytic (or isolating) type. Based on Sybesma
Szeto, PY +5 more
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What a Creole Wants, What a Creole Needs
, 2022 In recent years, the natural language processing (NLP) community has given increased attention to the disparity of efforts directed towards high-resource languages over low-resource ones.
Ogueji, Kelechi +4 more
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A Data‐Driven Approach to the Issue of ‘Catching Up With Monolinguals’
International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 6, November/December 2026.ABSTRACT Background Multilingual children in monolingual education systems are generally assessed against monolingual norms, raising questions about identifying genuine language support needs versus expected developmental trajectories. Aims This study aimed to identify: (1) the amount of cumulative exposure to the societal language (SL) beyond which ...
Cécile De Cat +5 more
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Is French a Creole language? [PDF]
, 2014 Creoles are a unique clan of languages. Slaveholders needed a way to communicate with their slaves and vice-versa. In order to do this, a pidgin language developed in which only the bare essential of a language is used to communicate.
Boudreaux, Ivan J.
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La suite voyelle-/R/ en créole et en français mauricien : analyses acoustiques
Études CréolesThis study investigates /VR/ sequences in Mauritian French and Mauritian Creole (e.g. French persil, lire – Creole. persi, lir). Using acoustic analyses of the first two formants (F1 and F2), we investigated not only the presence or absence of /R ...
Rachel Sapermal, Elisabeth Heiszenberger
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Decolonizing Creole: creative practices in Mauritian Creole [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2016 Many Caribbean and Indian Ocean islands have a common history of French and British colonization, where a Creole language developed from the contact of different colonial and African/ Indian languages. In the process, African languages died, making place
Gitanjali Pyndiah
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Nigerian Creole as language of instruction: Will Nigerian lecturers use Nigerian Creole?
Reading & Writing, 2015 This mixed questionnaire survey sought to determine if lecturers who learned to speak and understand Nigerian Creole before English are willing to use the language as medium of instruction.
Uju C. Ukwuoma
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