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Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar : The Case of Haitian Creole / Claire Lefebvre.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lefebvre, Claire.
- Series:
- Cambridge books online.
- Cambridge Studies in Linguistics ; no. 88
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Creole dialects.
- Pidgin languages.
- Psycholinguistics.
- Second language acquisition.
- Creole dialects, French--Haiti--Grammar.
- Creole dialects, French.
- Grammar.
- Haiti.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (480 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- This study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis: relexification, reanalysis, and direct leveling. The role of these processes is documented by a detailed comparison of Haitian creole with its two major contributing languages, French and Fongbe, to illustrate how mechanisms from source languages show themselves in creole. The author examines the input of adult, as opposed to child, speakers and resolves the problems in the three main approaches, universalist, superstratist and substratist, which have been central to the recent debate on creole development.
- Notes:
- Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Mar 2012).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780511519826
- 9780521593823
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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