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New ways of analysing the history of varieties of English - an acoustic analysis of early pop music recordings from Ghana [PDF]
, 2012 I will present first results of an acoustic analysis of Ghanaian “Highlife” songs from the 1950s to 1960s. My results show that vowel subsystems in the 1950s and 1960s show a different kind of variation than in present-day Ghanaian English.
Schmidt, Sebastian
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Pidgin in Creative Works in English in Cameroon
Darnioji daugiakalbystė, 2017 This study, which deals with code-switching and language choice in multilingual contexts, describes the use of Pidgin in creative works in English in Cameroon, with the focus on the forms that this language takes in the works, the types of characters who
Kouega Jean Paul, Aseh Mildred
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Ini Apel Ni Nya ‘This Here Apple Now' Deictics in the Malay Speech of Southwest Malukan Migrants in the Netherlands1 [PDF]
, 2008 Dialek Melayu yang dipakai para pendatang asal Maluku Selatan di Belanda inimemperlihatkan rangkaian demonstrativa dan endofora yang tidak ditemukandalam bahasa Indonesia baku.
Engelenhoven, A. V. (Aone)
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Multicultural Shakespeare, 2018 In 1974, the Honolulu-based director James Grant Benton wrote and staged Twelf Nite O Wateva!, a Hawaiian pidgin translation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. In Benton’s translation, Malolio (Malvolio) strives to overcome his reliance on pidgin English in
Rhema Hokama
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English Straight and Tok Pisin Stret: A Case Study from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2020 The framework of cognitive linguistics can be an efficient tool to represent the conceptual scope of meaning extension in reduced lexicons of pidgins and creoles.
Kosecki Krzysztof
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Modeling the emergence of contact languages [PDF]
, 2015 Contact languages are born out of the non-trivial interaction of two (or more) parent languages. Nowadays, the enhanced possibility of mobility and communication allows for a strong mixing of languages and cultures, thus raising the issue of whether ...
Loreto, Vittorio +3 more
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Language of Power: Pidgin in the Colonial Governance of Northern Nigeria
Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2015 Pidgin was indispensable as a working language of colonial governance in Northern Nigeria, epitome of the distinct and continuing role of pidgin as a language of the workplace in West Africa.
Philip Atsu Afeadie
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Islamic Learning in Arabic-Afrikaans Between Malay Model and Ottoman Reform [PDF]
, 2015 Through the second half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century the Muslim community of Cape Town produced a large number of texts in various fields of Islamic learning, written in Afrikaans, a creolized variety of the language the ...
Versteegh, K. (Kees)
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Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1991 In this paper I present an analysts of what remains of a trade language born in the seventeenth century as a consequence of Basque fishing trips in the North Atlantic.
José Ignacio Hualde
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Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1991 Basque fishermen were among the most numerous visitors of the North East coast of America in the 16th and 17th centuries. They traded actively with some of the native tribes on the coast and along the banks of the Saint Lawrence River.
Peter Bakker
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