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- Bakker, Peter, et al.
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Creoles are typologically distinct from non-creoles
- 2011
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Ingår i: Journal of Pidgin and Creole languages ( Print). - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 0920-9034 .- 1569-9870. ; 26:1, s. 5-42
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In creolist circles, there has been a long-standing debate whether creoles differ structurally from non-creole languages and thus would form a special class of languages with specific typological properties. This debate about the typological status of creole languages has severely suffered from a lack of systematic empirical study. This paper presents for the first time a number of large-scale empirical investigations of the status of creole languages as a typological class on the basis of different and well-balanced samples of creole and non-creole languages. Using statistical modeling (multiple regression) and recently developed computational tools of quantitative typology (phylogenetic trees and networks), this paper provides robust evidence that creoles indeed form a structurally distinguishable subgroup within the world's languages. The findings thus seriously challenge approaches that hold that creole languages are structurally indistinguishable from non-creole languages.
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- Bergren, Max, et al.
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Inferring the location of authors from words in their texts
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 20th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics. - Linköping : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 9789175190983
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- For the purposes of computational dialec- tology or other geographically bound text analysis tasks, texts must be annotated with their or their authors’ location. Many texts are locatable but most have no ex- plicit annotation of place. This paper describes a series of experiments to de- termine how positionally annotated mi- croblog posts can be used to learn loca- tion indicating words which then can be used to locate blog texts and their authors. A Gaussian distribution is used to model the locational qualities of words. We in- troduce the notion of placeness to describe how locational words are.We find that modelling word distributions to account for several locations and thus several Gaussian distributions per word, defining a filter which picks out words with high placeness based on their local distributional context, and aggregating lo- cational information in a centroid for each text gives the most useful results. The re- sults are applied to data in the Swedish language.
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- Engstrand, Olle, et al.
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The beginnings of a database for historical sound change
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Ingår i: Papers from the 21st Swedish Phonetics Conference. ; , s. 101-104
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We report a preliminary version of a database from which examples of historical sound change can be retrieved and analyzed. To date, the database contains about 1,000 examples of regular sound changes from a variety of language families. As exemplified in the text, searches can be made based on IPA symbols, articulatory features, segmental or prosodic context, or type of change. The database is meant to provide an adequately large sample of areally and genetically balanced information on historical sound changes that tend to take place in the world’s languages. It is also meant as a research tool in the quest for diachronic explanations of genetic and areal biases in synchronic typology.
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- Jacobs, Bart, et al.
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How ‘Portuguese’ are Palenquero and Chabacano really?
- 2021
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Ingår i: Revue Romane. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 0035-3906 .- 1600-0811. ; 56:2, s. 235-266
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A long-lasting debate within creole studies concerns the scarcity of Spanish-based creoles and the theoretical implications this may have. However, there is no agreement as to how many genuinely Spanish-based creoles there are in the world, and identifying the size of that group can generate controversies. Papiamentu, for instance, is canonically classified as a Spanish-based creole, even though most scholars at present seem to agree its origins are Creole Portuguese. A Portuguese lineage has on various occasions and by various authors also been claimed for Chabacano (Philippine Creole Spanish) and Palenquero (spoken in Colombia). These creoles, too, were supposedly once Portuguese-based, only to subsequently be ‘relexified’ towards Spanish. This paper argues that there is little linguistic basis for that claim. Although both creoles do indeed seem to have received some Portuguese (Creole) input, we maintain that this input was limited and substratal in nature, and thus has no bearing on the classification (whether diachronic or synchronic) of the two creoles as truly Spanish-based.
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- Jacobs, Bart, et al.
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Skepi Creole Dutch The Rodschied Papers
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Pidgin and Creole languages ( Print). - 0920-9034 .- 1569-9870.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents new Skepi Creole Dutch data from the late-18th century, found in the work of the German scholar Ernst Karl Rodschied. The creole data include pronominal and verbal paradigms, a short 60-word excerpt from a private letter, and around two dozen names for local flora. After briefly introducing Rodschied, we present the data and compare them to the existing Skepi corpus.
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