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Showing 1 to 20 of 113 for “"Creole"”.
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Creole Resistance in Louisiana from Colonization to Black Lives Matter: Activism’s Deep-Rooted Role in Creole Identity
<p>Creole identity within Louisiana emerged as a result of French colonization and as a means of classification denoting birthplace but developed into a cultural identity specific to the lived experience of residents of Louisiana. An often-overlooked aspect of Creole identity is its role within the …
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The Sierra Leone Creole Language: Exploring the Influences of Sierra Leone Creole Language in English and Native Languages
The Sierra Leone Creole language is a vibrant and evolving language that has a significant influence as a Lingual Franka spoken by a substantial portion of the Sierra Leoneans among the numerous languages in the country. It is a crucial point for understanding the complex dynamic of Creole language …
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Creole identity: a post-colonial research in contemporary Mauritius
The highly stratified creole community in contemporary Mauritius is undergoing a significant ethnic identity crisis spurred by racialised divisions and class categorisations. This thesis specifically examines the residualisation of a persecuted creole sub-group, the ‘ti-creoles’ who have claimed …
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Improving neural language models on low-resource creole languages
… data, also known as a low-resource language. Creole languages are frequently low-resource and as such it is difficult to train neural language models for them well. Creole languages are a special type of language that is widely thought of as having multiple parents and thus receiving a mix of …
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Rethinking decreolization: Language contact and change in Louisiana Creole
All languages change. Creoles are no exception. However, do creoles change in the same ways as other languages? Research on language change in creoles has hinged on the notion of decreolization: apparently a ‘special case’ of contact-induced change whereby the creole adverges to the lexifier …
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The Tense-Mood-Aspect System of Hawai`i Creole English
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The Development of the Creole Society of Freetown, Sierra Leone
The study is concerned with an analysis of the social stratification system of Freetown society from 1787 onwards in terms of Max Weber's three orders of the economic, (to which he limited the term 'class'), the social (which is composed of status groups based on differential honor), and political …
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Toward a Creole Christ : a theology of language and Christian hybridity.
… "Mulatto Christ" through an articulation of a "Creole Christ." I do this by trying to re-source Carter and Bantum through an appeal to (what I call) the ordinary reading of the later Wittgenstein. In particular, I consider Naoko Saito's work on translation and cross-cultural understanding, in …
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Discourse characteristics of Creole-speaking Mauritian adults with mild to moderate aphasia
… moderate aphasia on the dscourse performance of Creole speaking Mauritians. A control group was included so as to differentiate aspects of discourse from normal to pathological and with a view to discerning compensatory strategies of adults with aphasia in discourse.
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"Marie Manje La Pom Nan." Examining the Cognitive Process of Restructuring and Advantage Selection in the Definite Article System in Haitian Creole Among U.S. Born Heritage Speakers of Haitian Creole
… (Polinsky & Kagan, 2007). Therefore, Haitian Creole (HC) is a candidate for restructuring. In this investigation we compared the morphophonological patterns of the definite article system at the production and perception level between two groups of early learners of Haitian Creole (i.e. native …
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Literary expressions of Creole identity in Alfred Mercier's L'Habitation Saint-Ybars and Johnelle
… novels and their roles as emblems of Francophone Creole cultural identity. During the nineteenth century following the Louisiana Purchase and subsequent anglophone influx, the French-speaking Creole population faced a cultural upheaval. Unable to completely identify as either French or American, …
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HUU-FA THESIS DAT?: A Syntactic Analysis of Possessive Jamaican Creole Possessive WH-elements
… discusses the differences between the Jamaican Creole expressions huu-fa and fi-huu. Jamaican Creole is a language that was born from a combination of the lexifier language English and the substrate language Twi, therefore it is reasonable to check whether the features of JC were derived from …
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Language contact in St. Lucia: The features and origins of St. Lucia Creole English
This thesis documents in detail St. Lucia Creole English (SLCE), St. Lucia’s third language variety, which is spoken alongside Kwéyòl, a French-based creole, and Standard English. With only brief descriptions of its features previously available, this work fills a significant gap in the literature …
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New Orleans' Plasterers' Union Local 93: Afro-Creole Identity, Family and Organized Labor, 1898-1954
… by Irish Americans and New Orleans Afro-Creoles and represents a continuation of an Afro-Creole protest tradition that had existed since the eighteenth century in Louisiana. The cooperation between these Irish and Afro-Creole plasterers represented a social sodality of working class …
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"Something at Least Human": Transatlantic (Re)Presentations of Creole Women in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Throughout the nineteenth century, Creole women were consistently idealized, exoticized, and demonized in literature and culture on both sides of the Atlantic. While the term Creole is still hotly contested even today, in its most basic sense it refers to people raised in colonial territories and …
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Diasporic identities, autochthonous rights: race, gender, and the cultural politics of Creole land rights in Nicaragua
This dissertation explores how afro-descendent Creoles from the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua engage the politics of femininity and masculinity, indigeneity and blackness, tradition and modernity, and autochthony and diaspora in their struggles for communal land rights. The historical part of the …
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THE NASALIZATION OF THE HAITIAN CREOLE DETERMINER LA IN NON-NASAL CONTEXTS: A VARIATIONIST SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY
… for example, to monolingual speakers of Haitian Creole? (2) Are there linguistic factors conditioning the change, for example, the phonological features of vowels in word-final syllables? (3) Is there a correlation between Frenchified features (e.g. front rounded vowels, postvocalic [r]) and the …
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Spanish-Creole characteristics in the dialect of people with African origins in Port Limón, Costa Rica
<p>This research project examines the language spoken by the Afro-Caribbean population in Port Limón, Costa Rica. This language resulted from the cultural blend of peoples from Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, and other Caribbean islands that immigrated to the Atlantic coast region of Costa …
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