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The morphosyntax of reiteration in creole and non-creole languages
Reiteration in Pichi: Forms, functions and areal-typological perspectives, 2012 This is a new contribution to a theory of reiteration in natural languages, with a special focus on creoles. Reiteration is meant to denote any situation where the same form occurs (at least) twice within the boundaries of some linguistic domain. By including two case studies bearing on Hebrew and Breton alongside five chapters on creole languages ...
Aboh, E.O., Smith, N., Zribi-Hertz, A.
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Pidgin Languages and Creole Languages
, 2004 The article discusses research on the sociolinguistics of creole languages focusing on the creole continuum notion and its viability. The paper argues that the evidence shows that this notion is rather problematic and cannot coherently explain language practices in English official Creole communities or other communities where creoles are regularly ...
Migge, Bettina
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On Language Models for Creoles [PDF]
Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2021 CoNLL ...
Heather C. Lent +4 more
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English-derived words in Sierra Leone Krio [PDF]
, 1983 This thesis is divided into four sections. Section One is introductory, and starts with a mention of the theories about the origins, and definitions of pidgin and creole languages.
Jones, Frederick Claudius Victor
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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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Perspectives on Creole Formation [PDF]
, 2022 This paper is another argument in favor of a uniformitarian approach to Creole languages, analyzed on a par with non-Creole languages. We take a critical look at competing hypotheses about the formation of Creole languages and any resulting typology.
Aboh, E.O., DeGraff, M.
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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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