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Exploring the boundaries of Caribbean Creole languages / edited by Hazel Simmons-McDonald and Ian Robertson.

Van Pelt Library PM7831 .E97 2006
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Language:
English
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Physical Description:
xvi, 244 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Jamaica : UWIPress, 2006.
Contents:
  • Challenging the definition of Creole / Ian Robertson
  • Tense and aspect in Belize Creole / Donald Winford
  • Phonological signatures of Tobagonian speech in Trinidad and Tobago / Winford James
  • On the status of diphthongs in Jamaican: Mr. Vegas pronounces / Hubert Devonish
  • The use of the vernacular in West Indian education / Dennis Craig
  • Vernacular instruction and bi-literacy development / Hazel Simmons-McDonald
  • Issues of face-saving in the pre-school classroom / Valerie Youssef
  • Creole representation in the literary discourse: issues of linguistic and discourse analysis / Barbara Lalla
  • Is the pain in your belly-bottom: extending the boundaries of Jamaican Creole to non-native users / Kathryn Shields-Brodber
  • Asou Down-There: code-mixing in a bilingual community / Martha Isaac - Globalization and the language of Rastafari / Velma Pollard.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
976640187X
OCLC:
70273000

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