External vowel sandhi processes in Lung’Ie considering stress and tone by Ana Lívia Agostinho

“…This paper investigates the contexts in which stress allows or blocks external vowel sandhi processes in Lung’Ie, a Portuguese-based Creole language spoken in Príncipe Island, São Tomé and Príncipe. …”
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Decolonizing Creole: creative practices in Mauritian Creole by Gitanjali Pyndiah

“…Many Caribbean and Indian Ocean islands have a common history of French and British colonization, where a Creole language developed from the contact of different colonial and African/ Indian languages. …”
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Phonetic and phonological aspects of Colombian Spanish by Jasmina Markič

“…The article also deals with the extension of yeísmo, a merger of /ʎ/ into /ʝ/, in the area of Bogotá and with some phonetic phenomena of the creole language palenquero. The analysis is based on examples from spoken Colombian Spanish corpus PRESEEA and other sources. …”
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Yon literasi an kreyòl an Ayiti: kle pou reyisit eskolè ak eliminasyon kreyolofobi a by Martineau Nelson, Michelet Michel, Renauld Govain

“…In school and in all other spheres of formal activity, Haitians develop discriminatory behaviors that we call creolophobia, which prevents the Creole language from participating in the social transformation and development of the society. …”
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INTERFERENSI FONOLOGIS PENUTUR BAHASA MELAYU KUPANG KE DALAM BAHASA INDONESIA DI KOTA KUPANG by Agnes Maria Diana Rafael

“…Furthermore, the factors that cause the BMK interference into BI are the bilingual factor, the prestige factor and the nativization process (BMK is a creole language).…”
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Grammaticalization in Seychelles Creole: the coding of reciprocity by kanmarad by Sibylle Kriegel

“…This contribution first presents present-day data from spoken and written corpora of SC and compares them to data published in the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures, APiCS (Michaelis & al. 2013). …”
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A contribution to the linguistic history of the língua geral amazônica by Ayron Dall'Igna Rodrigues, Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral

“…This approach brings evidence against the claim that Língua Geral Geral Amazônica is a creole language neither a language developed by the seventeenth century Jesuit missionaries. …”
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Why did creolization happen in the Caribbean and not in Brazil? Social conditionings by Dante Lucchesi

“…From this perspective, the paper seeks to make some generalizations about the historical formation of the so-called Creoles of the Atlantic and about the very conception of the creole languages. The position that guides this analysis is that, in order for creolization to occur, there must be a rupture in linguistic transmission, which allows a strong reduction and deep restructuring of a second language variety, a pidgin. …”
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Lah lah land: a visual exploration of Singlish by Kho, Hong Kai

“…While Singlish has yet to be recognized as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Singapore, the creole language is one of the most unique and distinguishable features of our culture that sets us apart from the rest of the world. …”
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The Secret Lives of Bouki: Louisiana’s Creolized Folkloresque by Rich Paul Cooper

“…This article historicizes the character of Bouki in the context of Creole Louisiana, showing how the story of Bouki has evolved to become the story of Kouri-Vini, Louisiana’s native and endangered Creole language. This historicization takes place in three distinct periods; those periods are defined by their relation to Kouri-Vini. …”
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O conceito de “Língua Geral do Brasil” revisitado à luz da linguística de contato by Márcia Santos Duarte de Oliveira, Maria de Lurdes Zanoli, Marcelo Módolo

“…We also propose that the LG creole language be integrated in a pidgin-creole continuum departing from the Tupinamba language. …”
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"Kot nou vire tourne nou tand li" Serial Verb Constructions at the Interface between Grammar and Culture: Case-Study Kreol Seselwa (Seychelles Creole) by Dany Adone, Melanie A. Brück, Astrid Gabel

“…Th is paper investigates the form and function of Verb Chains and Serial Verb Constructions (SVCs) in Kreol Seselwa (Seychelles Creole, KS), a French-based Creole language spoken in the Indian Ocean. Prior to Bickerton’s seminal paper in 1989, it was widely assumed that Serial Verb Constructions were not part of KS grammar. …”
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Grammaticalization in Seychelles Creole: the coding of reciprocity by kanmarad by Sibylle Kriegel

“…This contribution first presents present-day data from spoken and written corpora of SC and compares them to data published in the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures, APiCS (Michaelis & al. 2013). …”
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A contribution to the linguistic history of the língua geral amazônica by Aryon Dall'Igna Rodrigues, Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral

“…This approach brings evidence against the claim that Língua Geral Geral Amazônica is a creole language neither a language developed by the seventeenth century Jesuit missionaries. …”
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Perspectives on Creole Genesis and Language Acquisition by Heather Barikmo

“…Creolists tend to view the genesis of creole languages as more complicated than do other linguists. …”
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Asymmetrical Complexity in Languages Due to L2 Effects: Unserdeutsch and Beyond by Siegwalt Lindenfelser

“…A method for a simple comparison of the amount of inherent versus contextual categories is proposed and applied to the German-based creole language Unserdeutsch (Rabaul Creole German) in comparison to its lexifier language. …”
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Preparing a creole dictionary on historical principles: the case of the Jamaican National Dictionary by Farquharson, J

“…Compiling a dictionary on historical principles for any language is quite an ambitious task, but preparing one for a creole language presents several additional challenges. …”

Jamaican creole heritage language instruction in Toronto by Tucker, SK

“…Such findings highlight a need for Jamaican Creole language awareness raising initiatives in Toronto as well as the development of Jamaican Creole literature of more varied genres, particularly those of an academic nature. …”

Vocablos Añi y Baule en los repertorios culturales del Caribe by Kouassi Michel YAPI

“…Indeed, the words Añi and Baule are one of the key elements that feed the creole language. Its incorporation into Creole encourages forms of expressions that identify each Caribbean country. …”
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Spanish Grammatical Gender Interference in Papiamentu by Jorge R. Valdés Kroff, Frederieke Rooijakkers, M. Carmen Parafita Couto

“…The aim of this study is to determine whether Spanish-like gender agreement causes interference in speakers of Papiamentu (a Western Romance-lexified creole language) who also speak Spanish. Papiamentu and Spanish are highly cognate languages in terms of their lexicons. …”
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