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A systems approach to multilingual language attitudes: A case study of Montréal, Québec, Canada. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Billing
Feng RY   +8 more
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Mauritian Creole Reflexives

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 1989
Present-day Mauritian Creole has a complex reflexive system with the typologically interesting property that plain pronouns are unmarked for reflexivity [uR]. Corne (1988) describes this system, and argues that the [uR] pronouns developed late, as a result of French influence after the creole had jelled.
Guy Carden, William A. Stewart
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Mauritian Creole Reflexives

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 1988
In the process of pidginization and creolization that occurred in the 18th century, Mauritian Creole (Mau) did not retain the atonic clitics of French. In consequence, morphologically marked reflexives were lost, or paraphrased in various ways using especially the lexical item lekor 'body'.
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The Mauritian Creole determiner system

2009
The process of article incorporation early in the genesis of Mauritian Creole (MC) resulted in the occurrence of a bare nouns in argument positions with ambiguous interpretations between (in)definite, singular, plural and generic. A new determiner system gradually emerged, but MC continues to admit bare nouns in argument positions. It is argued in this
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A Speech Engine for Mauritian Creole

2019
This paper presents the work done for the creation of a Creole Speech Engine. Speech recognition can improve the experience of a user and can contribute to technology adoption and usage. At present, most speech-based applications are in English or other foreign languages. Having a Creole-based speech engine to support application can be very beneficial.
Wajiha Noormamode   +2 more
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