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Title Exploring the boundaries of Caribbean Creole languages / edited by Hazel Simmons-McDonald and Ian Robertson
Published Kingston, Jamaica : UWIPress, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 244 pages) : illustrations
Contents The contribution of Pauline Christie to the study of linguistics in the Caribbean / Robert Le Page -- "Memory of Mona" / Frederic G. Cassidy -- 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 : French-Creole speakers / Hazel Simmons-McDonald -- Issues of face-saving in the pre-school classroom / Valerie Youssef -- Creole representation in 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Creole dialects -- Caribbean Area
Language and education -- Caribbean Area
Sociolinguistics -- Caribbean Area
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Creole Languages.
Creole dialects
Language and education
Sociolinguistics
Engelse creooltalen.
18.96 pidgin and creole languages.
Caribbean Area
Caribisch gebied.
Genre/Form Festschriften
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Simmons-McDonald, Hazel.
Robertson, Ian
Christie, Pauline
ISBN 9781435694712
1435694716