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Structural and Extralinguistic Aspects of Code-Switching: Evidence From Papiamentu-Dutch Auditory Sentence Matching [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Despite a wealth of studies on effects of switch locations in code-switching (CS), we know relatively little about how structural factors such as switch location and extralinguistic factors such as directionality preferences may jointly modulate CS (cf.,
Luuk Suurmeijer   +4 more
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Spanish Grammatical Gender Interference in Papiamentu [PDF]

open access: yesLanguages, 2019
The aim of this study is to determine whether Spanish-like gender agreement causes interference in speakers of Papiamentu (a Western Romance-lexified creole language) who also speak Spanish. Papiamentu and Spanish are highly cognate languages in terms of
Jorge R. Valdés Kroff   +2 more
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The Upper Guinea origins of Papiamentu [PDF]

open access: yesDiachronica, 2009
This paper deals with the linguistic and historical relationships between Papiamentu and Upper Guinea Creole as spoken on the Santiago island of Cape Verde and in Guinea-Bissau and Casamance. In the linguistic section, the hypothesis that Papiamentu is a relexified offshoot of an early Upper Guinea Creole variety is lent support by focusing on the ...
Jacobs, Bart
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Breast cancer screening in the Caribbean: a comparative study across six Caribbean Islands with a transatlantic perspective [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Introduction Breast cancer (BC) is the primary cause of cancer-related mortality among women globally, including within the Caribbean Region. This burden of disease underscores the critical need for effective breast cancer screening (BCS) programs yet ...
K. E. C. Steegmans   +16 more
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The Grammatical Function of Papiamentu Tone

open access: yesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2004
I propose that tone in Papiamentu is a marker of the morphosyntactic category of a given form. Its primary function, therefore, is grammatical. This account of Papiamentu tone differs from previously proposed accounts, which treat tone in Papiamentu as a
Silvia Kouwenberg
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The origin and originality of passivization in Papiamentu

open access: yesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2011
This paper is concerned with the diachrony of passivization in Papiamentu. While it is generally held in the literature that passivization in Papiamentu is a non-native 19th century borrowing from Dutch and Spanish, this paper argues that it is in fact ...
Bart Jacobs
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Three types of fronting constructions in Papiamentu [PDF]

open access: yes, 1978
Contains fulltext : 3833.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Muysken, P.C.
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Algunas observaciones sociolingüísticas sobre el Caribe de lenguas criollas

open access: yesAmerika, 2021
This article will compare the sociolinguistic situation of the papiamentu speaking Curaçao with the kréyol speaking Martinique. Two Caribbean islands, each existing in a different state of dependency with the old colonial metropolis, the Kingdom of the ...
Viktor Rosner
doaj   +1 more source

Make your mouth agua: idioms and the integrated hypothesis

open access: yesBorealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2023
Recent work argues that a bilingual linguistic system is fully integrated in one competence system and does not consist of two separate, autonomous systems as is commonly assumed (see Goldrick et al 2016, Grimstad et al 2014, López 2020, Riksam 2017 ...
Luis López   +5 more
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