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Mauritian Creole revisited: some inferences drawn from the study of a sample of Mauritian Creole data*

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Author
Sayers, Coral
Accessioned
2016-06-15T19:31:13Z
Available
2016-06-15T19:31:13Z
Issued
1982-09
Subject
Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Linguistic change
Creole dialects, French
Dialectology
Creole dialects, French--Mauritius
Type
journal article
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Abstract
"Possibly all change processes partake of the characteristics of creolization, with the particular historical circumstances making the crucial, but essentially quantitative, difference." (Hoenigswald 1971:479). If Hoenigswald's hypothesis proves to be correct, the implication is that the study of Creole languages has much to offer the theorist of language change. Morris Goodman's comprehensive study of French Creoles was published in 1964. In 1981 I collected a small sample of Mauritian Creole data in Calgary. In the hope that the time lapse would reveal some points of difference which could suggest appropriate questions or even directions for research in the field of language change, I examined the Calgary data in relation to Goodman's data and in relation to other references to French Creoles in the literature.
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Citation
Sayers, C. (1982). Mauritian Creole revisited: some inferences drawn from the study of a sample of Mauritian Creole data*. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 8(Fall), 107-124.
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Linguistics
Faculty
Arts
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University of Calgary
Publisher
University of Calgary
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/29032
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51305
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