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Forma y Función, 2011 En este artículo se presenta de manera general una descripción de la situación sociolingüística de las lenguas criollas habladas en la región del Caribe.
David Leonardo García León
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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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Journal of Marriage and Family, Volume 88, Issue 3, Page 709-724, June 2026.ABSTRACT Objective This study explores how and why West African and Caribbean heritage mothers in the Netherlands engage in ethnic‐racial socialization. Background West African and Caribbean communities have long histories in the Netherlands. Even though parents from these communities are tasked with helping children navigate mainstream Dutch culture ...
Daudi van Veen +2 more
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 255-267, June 2026.ABSTRACT Sociolinguistic research has long documented the appropriation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) across media including film, music and advertising. In this article, we add to this body of work by exploring the digital recontextualisation of a subset of AAVE features as ‘TikTok/internet language’.
Christian Ilbury, Rianna Walcott
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Cross‐Linguistic Suffix Preference: Typological or Cognitive Bias?
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1560, Issue 1, June 2026.Languages can be shaped by pre‐existing cognitive machinery that makes certain properties more processable. Such properties are more frequent across world languages. Most languages prefer suffixes to prefixes for grammatical meanings. Whether such typological bias is shaped by cognitive bias is debated.
Mikhail Ordin +2 more
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Applied Linguistics, sociolinguistics and world Englishes
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 232-246, June 2026.Abstract The world Englishes perspective, especially as expressed within Kachru's formulation of the Inner, Outer and Expanding Circles of Englishes, provides a flexible and coherent model of the historical spread of English. While the model has had a profound influence on various subfields of applied linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics ...
Andrew Moody
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The development of syllable structure in cape verdean creole
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2008 The paper examines syllable restructuring in the Santiago variety of Cape Verdean Creole. It is shownthat currently attested forms reflect to some extent the syllable structure in earlier stages of the language.
Andrei A. Avram
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What’s specific about bann ? Le lien entre « spécificité » et interprétation exclusive
Études CréolesThe (non)specific interpretation of noun phrases is a recurrent issue in studies on creole languages. Some theories (Bickerton, 1981) had even claimed that the specificity distinction was a distinctive feature of creole languages.
Ulrike Albers
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Towards a Plurilingual Pedagogy in Foreign Language Education in an Anglophone Creole Context
Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education, 2022 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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