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BRIDGING THE GAP: CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND CREOLE GENESIS
Ehrhart, Sabine
2017In Journal of the Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea
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Keywords :
contact linguistics; creole genesis; children’s language; management of multilingual spaces; Tayo language; Palmerston English; Unserdeutsch
Abstract :
[en] This article presents two cases of specific language ecologies that emerged in the South Pacific at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century: Palmerston English, spoken on a remote atoll in the Cook Islands, and Tayo, a school creole from the Catholic mission of Saint-Louis in New Caledonia. Both are still spoken and even expanding at present. Findings from these creoles with English and French lexifiers may be of interest to studies of German-based contact languages with similar initial ecologies. Based on the description of the environment where those two contact languages emerged, we would like to start a discussion about the parameters that influence the creation of new languages in specific contexts, such as these languages and Unserdeutsch.
Disciplines :
Languages & linguistics
Author, co-author :
Ehrhart, Sabine ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Education, Culture, Cognition and Society (ECCS)
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
BRIDGING THE GAP: CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND CREOLE GENESIS
Publication date :
2017
Journal title :
Journal of the Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea
ISSN :
0023-1959
Special issue title :
LLM Special Issue 2017 - Language Contact in the German Colonies: Papua New Guinea and beyond
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Focus Area :
Multilingualism and Intercultural Studies
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