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On Selected Origins of Contact Languages. A Socio-Historical Perspective
Styles of Communication, 2012 The external socio-historical factors that determine the rise of contact languages define the new varieties and decide on their form and structures. Pidgin languages arise as a consequence of many social and historical processes which involve political ...
Aleksandra Knapik
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Iconicity as the motivation for morphophonological metathesis and truncation in Nigerian Pidgin
Open LinguisticsWe present evidence for iconicity as the motivation for two patterns of morphophonological alternation in Nigerian Pidgin, also known as Naijá. To express an ‘unconventional positive’ in all varieties of Naijá, some nouns with the tone melodies H-L and L-
Akinbo Samuel Kayode +1 more
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Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2014 Gulf Pidgin Arabic (GPA) is a simplified communication system established by the non-Arabic immigrants to Gulf countries in the Middle East. In the past decades, millions of people with no Arabic skills have come from countries such as Bangladesh, India,
Potsdam, Eric, Alanazi, Mohammad
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Efficient state reduction methods for PLA-based sequential circuits [PDF]
, 1992 Experiences with heuristics for the state reduction of finite-state machines are presented and two new heuristic algorithms described in detail. Results on machines from the literature and from the MCNC benchmark set are shown.
Avedillo de Juan, María José +2 more
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Cultural conceptualisations and the cultural model of fertility and infertility in Nigerian English
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 163-181, March 2026.Abstract The article scrutinises the concepts of fertility and infertility as reflected in Nigerian English. For this, a mixed‐methods approach is suggested that uses the Corpus of Global Web‐based English as a resource to shed light on lexical frequency and collocations, as well as a newspaper corpus of online articles from The Guardian and Vanguard ...
Anna Finzel
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Public Administration and Development, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 77-92, February 2026.ABSTRACT Using public ethnography anchored in the post‐development theory and interpretivist epistemological paradigm, this study examines what we term the ‘socio‐cultural milieus dynamics’ (SCMD) of the Solomon Islands (SI) and how these shape meaning, discourse, and practice in ways that influence Australia's aid localisation efforts and aid outcomes.
Mark Opoku Amankwa +5 more
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Yokohama Pidgin Japanese Revisited
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2014 The paper is an overview of the structural features of the phonology, morphology, syntax and vocabulary of Yokohama Pidgin Japanese, an under researched contact language.
Andrei A. AVRAM
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Visualising the Colonised Other: Representations of Identity and Power in Finnish Textbook Images
Journal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT Colonialism persists as a cultural, economic, political and psychological process. Colonial legacies embedded in Europe's landscapes of colonial memory continue to shape how individuals and groups are perceived and positioned in present‐day intergroup relations. Schools and textbooks reproduce these legacies, making it essential to examine how
Inari Sakki, Aino Santavuori
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Syllable restructuring in early Solomon Islands Pidgin English
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2007 The present paper looks at the various syllable restructuring strategies used in early Solomon Islands Pidgin English. These depend on the phonological shape of the etyma and consist of epenthesis, paragoge and consonant deletion.
Andrei A. Avram
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Simplifying knowledge creation and access for end-users on the SW
, 2008 In this position paper, we argue that improved mechanisms for knowledge acquisition and access on the semantic web (SW) will be necessary before it will be adopted widely by end-users.
André, Paul +5 more
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