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Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We examine the colonial origins and evolution of gender inequality in mission schooling and formal labour force participation across six cities in British colonial Africa, using marriage register data for some 30,000 Anglican brides and grooms well‐positioned to benefit from colonial educational and employment opportunities.
Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf
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What history tells us about the development of Creole in Guadeloupe
NWIG, 1992 Review of the socio-historical context in which Creole developed in Guadeloupe. The author questions the validity of the claim made about the insignificant role of African languages in the development of creole languages.
Marie-Josée Cérol
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Reflexives in the creole languages: an interim report [PDF]
, 1994 Contains fulltext : 3979.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Muysken, P.C., Smith, N.S.H.
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International Journal of Dental Hygiene, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives This study explored oral health beliefs and behaviours among adults in the Seychelles through the perspective of the Extended Health Belief Model. The findings aim to inform contextually appropriate oral health promotion and prevention strategies for this population.
C. Y. S. Noshir, P. Brijlal
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The complex of creole typological features: The case of Mauritian Creole
, 2012 This paper presents morphosyntactic and sentential information on Mauritian Creole (MC), a French-lexifier creole which has been underrepresented in many studies of Creole morphosyntactic typology.
Grant, Anthony P; id_orcid +2 more
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Palatal sonorants in Portuguese-based creoles
IsoglossThe adaptation results of sounds across languages is a valuable source of information for their theoretical representation. Such research can be especially enlightening when complex or rare sounds are concerned.
Carlos Silva, Fábio Barcellos Granja
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The Field of Creole Language Studies
Latin American Research Review, 1968 A decade ago, the study of pidgin and creole languages was highly compartmentalized. Very few linguists dealt with both pidgins and creoles. Few students of creole English were aware of current studies in other widely separated geographical areas, even of studies of the same language (e.g., Chinese pidgin English, Hawaiian English, Jamaican creole, and
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Only 5% of the Haitian population is fully bilingual in French and Kreyòl. On the contrary, 95% of the population is monolingual in the native language, Kreyòl. The purpose of this research is to examine the attitudes of Haitian high school students toward Kreyòl and French, particularly as official languages, and investigate the effects of ...
Gerdine Michel Ulysse
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A Null Theory of Creole Formation Based on Universal Grammar [PDF]
, 2016 Creole languages are typically the linguistic side effects of the creation of global economies based on the forced migration and labor of enslaved Africans toiling in European colonies in the Americas.
Enoch Aboh, Michel deGraff
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines elementary Grade 5 and 6 students’ emic perspectives on their L1 French and L2 English teachers’ cross‐curricular efforts to build linguistic and conceptual bridges. Drawing on research on translanguaging pedagogies and recent motivation scholarship, we propose a multi‐competence view of motivation that aligns more closely ...
Sunny Man Chu Lau +1 more
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