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A Bad Start to the School Year: Despite New Regulation Immigrant Parents Still Face Major Language Barriers [PDF]
, 2006 This report reveals serious lapses in the provision of language assistance services to immigrant parents found during Advocates for Children of New York (AFC)'s month-long monitoring of high school registration centers and a survey of select parent ...
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, 2017 Abstract This chapter provides an overview of structural properties of creole languages based on widely different languages and spoken in a broad geographic range. We discuss phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon. Phonologically, creoles tend to have average properties. Creoles are generally not endowed with a rich morphological
Peter Bakker, Aymeric Daval-Markussen
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The double modal construction in English world wide
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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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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L’impact du futur périphrastique français dans les franco-créoles
TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2015 Creole languages are the most recent natural languages (Khim 2005). As a matter of fact the question of their classification imposed itself very early to linguists when the language science enquired about the topic of language filiation in the second ...
Marie E. Paul
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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile
Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
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Decolonizing Creole on the Mauritius Islands: Creative Practices in Mauritian Creole
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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Earlier Caribbean English and Creole in Writing [PDF]
, 2010 In research on Creoles, historical written texts have in recent decades been fruitfully employed to shed light on the diachronic development of these languages and the nature of Creole genesis.
Migge, Bettina M, Muehleisen,, Susanne
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First Knowledging, First Languaging: Australian Teacher Education
TESOL Journal, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Colonial policy and practices in Australia have led to the current situation of economic and social disadvantage for First Nations peoples. These policies were also instrumental in the demise of their traditional languages, from approximately 250 to now only 12 being learnt as a first language.
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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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