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KMID : 0917519990050020093
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Journal of Speech Sciences
1999 Volume.5 No. 2 p.93 ~ p.107
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A Study of Creole Languages´ Pronunciation in the West Indies
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This study deals with a general review of Gafi´funa and Patois, creole languages which developed out of the sociohistorical situation of the last centuries and are mainly spoken in the West Indies and Carribean Coasts. In this paper, I present some notes and ideas on the linguistic developments and features of thess languages. Especially I describe their function connected with a variety of social circumstances and their phonetical/phonological changes from the base languages.
This is a result of fieldwork conducted in Honduras, Belize, Cuba and Mexico, from January 1996 to February 1998, using some surveys and collecting words from different materials and texts. And I hope this paper will contribute to research in ´mixed languages as well as to historical linguists.
I am very grateful to Mr. Mauricio Tom´as, the only uriversity student in Travesi´a a small town in nothern Honduras and to Mr. Carlos Marcos, a medical student who is from a Haitian family in Santiago de Cuba. Without their cooperation, I couldn´t have conducted this research.
Keywords: creole, patois, Gari´funa, phonetical/phonological changes
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