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Attributive possession in 19th century Mauritian Creole [PDF]
Linguistik Online, 2016 The paper examines the attributive possessive structures attested in 19th century Mauritian Creole. It is first shown that these include a construction with the preposition pou ‘for’, which has not been mentioned in the literature.
Andrei Avram
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Trumping the Ethnic Card: How Tourism Entrepreneurs on Rodrigues tackled the 2008 Financial Crisis [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2012 The 2008 global financial crisis had significant repercussions on small island states and territories. This article discusses the efforts of tourism entrepreneurs from Rodrigues, a subnational island jurisdiction and a de¬pendency of the Republic of ...
Carsten Wergin
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The perception of the French /s/-/ʃ/ contrast in early Creole-French bilinguals [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 One particularity of the Mauritian Creole language is that there is no contrastive distinction between the consonants /s/ and /ʃ/, which are both pronounced /s/ in Creole.
Sophie eDufour +3 more
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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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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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Prevalence of overweight, obesity and thinness in 9-10 year old children in Mauritius. [PDF]
Global Health, 2012 RIGHTS : This article is licensed under the BioMed Central licence at http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/license which is similar to the 'Creative Commons Attribution Licence'.
Caleyachetty R +5 more
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Multiple ethnic origins of mitochondrial DNA lineages for the population of Mauritius. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2014 This article reports on the first genetic assessment of the contemporary Mauritian population. Small island nodes such as Mauritius played a critical role in historic globalization processes and revealing high-resolution details of labour sourcing is ...
Fregel R +7 more
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Études Créoles, 2022 Mauritian Creole, first language of the vast majority of Mauritians, has been included in the education system in 2012, in which French and English are taught as core subjects.
Guilhem Florigny
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Dynamiques diagénérationnelles du créole mauricien en situation diasporique au Canada
Études Créoles, 2022 The purpose of this paper is to shed some light on the sociolinguistic situation of the Mauritian Creole in Canada by examining the diagenerational dynamics in the linguistic representations and language practices of Mauritian migrants and their Canadian-
Magnus Fischer
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Philip Baker and the Making of Mauritian Creole
Études Créoles, 2017 Vinesh Y. Hookoomsing
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