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Abstract Objectives Material deprivation (MD), the inability to afford essentials, is linked with poorer HIV clinical outcomes. In Canada, migrants living with HIV are a growing group, yet little is known about their experience of MD, especially early in treatment. This study examined the prevalence, nature, sociodemographic and clinical correlates and
Moustafa Laymouna +15 more
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This paper reports on the analysis of a typological database of creole phoneme inventories and surface syllables. The sample encompasses a balanced set of creole languages lexified by Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages.
Thomas B. Klein
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Towards a Plurilingual Pedagogy in Foreign Language Education in an Anglophone Creole Context
This article proposes a plurilingual pedagogical approach, which encompasses the use of the L1 (Jamaican Creole), the L2 (Standard Jamaican English), and the target language (e.g., Spanish) for the teaching of foreign languages in Jamaica. I discuss the
Renee Davy
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Based on current initiatives to promote literacy in several Central and Eastern European minority languages, the present article provides a reflective overview of a range of pointers that these case studies could potentially offer for Trinidad English ...
Antony Hoyte-West
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La criollización y la adquisición del sistema verbal en haitiano, jamaicano y papiamento
Resumen El presente artículo constituye un estudio del sistema de tiempo, modo y aspecto en las lenguas criollas habladas en Haití, Jamaica y las islas de Aruba, Curaçao y Bonaire.
María Teresa Galarza Ballester
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Topics in Linguistics: Creole Languages and Caribbean Identities
The Creole languages spoken in the Caribbean are linguistic by-products of the historical events triggered by colonization and the slave trade in Africa and the "New World".
DeGraff, Michel Anne-Frederic
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The genesis of pidgin and creole Languages: A state of the art [PDF]
The problem of the origin of pidgin and creole genesis has been addressed from different points of view over the last century. This paper summarises and evaluates the various theories proposed to account for the genesis of these languages.
Lefebvre, Claire
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Presentation of our Issue 6, number 11 “Language and power relations”
It is estimated that there are around 7,000 languages in the world. Only some of them have the status of being official languages and others are international languages. Many times, their status is linked to economic or political factors. In other cases,
Rolando Blas Sánchez
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What you see is not always what you get: Apparent simplicity and hidden complexity in creole languages [PDF]
This paper addresses McWhorter (Linguistic Typology, 2001, 5, 2-3, 125-166) strong claims that the world’s simplest grammars are creole grammars and that creole grammars constitute a synchronically definable typological class.
Lefebvre, Claire
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Copulas in contact: Kriyol, Upper Guinea Creoles, and their substrate
The present paper aims to describe copulas in Kriyol from a semantic-syntactic perspective and to compare them to copulas in the other Upper Guinea Creoles and certain substrate languages.
Chiara Truppi
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