ANTIGUAN CREOLE Antiguan Creole‚ owing to its British Colonial history‚ is English-based‚ and thus obviously shares many characteristics with British English. Also‚ because of the history of African slaves on the island‚ West African languages have contributed to Antiguan Creole‚ but in rather limited ways. The closest comparison to Antiguan Creole is Jamaican Creole‚ as Antiguan Creole shares the general structure with it. Antiguan Creole has some of its own distinctive features however.
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topic 1-2 Pieces of related information Bad English or Creole? By Peter Espeut 3-5 Cooper fires at Green paper 6-7 Reflective Poem: The Jamaican Creole 8 Drama: A Misunderstanding
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Jamaican Creole and Standard English Contrasted | Between 1066 and 1362‚ French was the official language of the England. English was viewed as an inferior vulgar hybridised Creole of Anglo-Saxon‚ Jutish‚ and Danish dialects. (Incidentally‚ Norman French itself could be described as a vulgar hybridised Creole of Gaulish‚ Latin‚ Norse‚ and Frankish dialects). Obviously‚ that opinion has changed‚ and in view of the humble origins of English it might be expected that English be understanding and
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Based on Ali G’s video about human rights on YouTube and the article by Peter L. Patrick entitled Jamaican Creole Morphology and Syntax‚ in terms of pronunciation‚ Jamaican Patois speaker as mentioned in the article normally substitute the /th/ sound to /d/ or /t/ sound. Hence‚ the word “them” will be pronounced as “dem”. Phonologically‚ /ðɛm/ is pronounced as /dɛm/. However‚ in the video‚ we noticed that the word “think” is pronounced the way the native speaker of English would pronounce. His pronunciation
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CREOLE ENGLISH AND BLACK ENGLISH by Mark Sebba Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YT‚ England e-mail: M.Sebba@lancaster.ac.uk © 2002 Mark Sebba THE ORIGINS OF "BLACK ENGLISH" "Black English" can refer to two different language varieties: (1) the type of English used by people of African and Caribbean descent who live in Britain; (2) the language of African-Americans (negroes) in the United States. This is usually called Black English
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Academic Source: “Historic low prestige and seeds of change: Attitudes toward Jamaican Creole” Jamaican Creole (known to its speakers as Patois) is a language of ethnic identification for roughly two and a half million people in the island of Jamaica‚ and overseas for many thousands of native speakers. The origins of the Jamaican Creole postdate 1660‚ in the interaction of British colonists and African slaves. Jamaican language and its place in society reflects the brutal history of Jamaica as
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this one that couth my full attention. This article was released by NASA on 3/11/2013 and talks about the discovery of the closest star system found in a century. NASA’s made this discovery through there Wide-field Infrared Survey known as “WISE”. WISE discover a pair of stars that is set as the third closest star system to the sun. The founding of these two stars is the closest system founded since 1916. Bothe these two stars are called brown dwarfs witch can be define as stars that are too small
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be an overview on the Jamaican Patois. There will be an analysis of the relationship between this creole and the jamaican official national language. Then it will explain briefly some phonological and grammatical aspect of this variety. JAMAICAN PATOIS: DE FACTO LANGUAGE OF NATIONAL IDENTITY 1. INTRODUCTION Jamaican Patois is a creole language spoken in Jamaica and in a part of the caribbean area (U.S.A‚ Puerto Rico‚ Panama and Costa Rica). It is called Jamaican Creole by specialists and it
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meaning of British Creole since it is not only a Creole but an ethnolect of the Black British community‚ whereas some people may say that it is a vernacular of British English. The linguist Peter L. Patrick claims that British Creole is the product of contact between the Creole language varieties of migrants from the Caribbean‚ and vernacular varieties of Urban English English. (Peter L. Patrick 2003: 231) So one could say that British Creole is a compounded variety of the Jamaican Creole Patois‚ and a
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Pidgins and Creoles Here are five areas into which the class discussion of pidgins and creoles will be divided. Structural Simplification Explain what structural simplification of language is and why it occurs during the process of pidginization. Illustrate simplification of language at the phonological‚ morphological‚ syntactic‚ and lexical levels. Pidgins and Creoles differentiated Compare Ferguson’s and Stewart’s definitions of pidgin and creole. Use Hymes’s criteria of inner form
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