2000
DOI: 10.1075/jpcl.15.2.06sno
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Caribbean creole/non-lexifier contact situations: A provisional survey

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“…The ongoing change of approximant rhotics of the Archipelago resonates with the framework discussed on contact situations where a Creole language is in direct contact with a national non-lexifier language (Snow, 2000;Aceto, 1999). If we apply the explanation of a Creole continua to the processes of change in this bilingual variety in a contact scenario, we would have to attribute any potential linguistic influence on the languages in contact.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 55%
“…The ongoing change of approximant rhotics of the Archipelago resonates with the framework discussed on contact situations where a Creole language is in direct contact with a national non-lexifier language (Snow, 2000;Aceto, 1999). If we apply the explanation of a Creole continua to the processes of change in this bilingual variety in a contact scenario, we would have to attribute any potential linguistic influence on the languages in contact.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 55%
“…This does indeed seem to be the case. To take some well-known examples from the Caribbean region -where such situations are quite common (Snow 2000) -Mufwene's observation doubtless helps account for why Dutch-lexified creoles have fared poorly in contact with English; why the English-lexified creoles of the Central American coast are being displaced by Spanish; and why French-lexified creoles have gone into decline in those islands where French has been displaced by English, such as Trinidad and Grenada, and to a lesser extent, St. Lucia (Garrett 2000(Garrett , 2005 and Dominica. 6 This need not mean certain death for these languages; to be sure, numerous other factors must also be taken into consideration.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Significantly smaller populations of creole speakers live in the mainland city of Changuinola near the Costa Rican border, on the island of Carenero, and in a few small, extremely remote villages east of the Peninsula Valiente on the Golfo de los Mosquitos. While Herzfeld (1983aHerzfeld ( , 1983b provides some preliminary data and a brief history of PCE in Bocas del Toro, the only variety of PCE in Bocas del Toro that has been studied in any detail is the variety spoken in Old Bank (see Aceto 1995Aceto , 1996aAceto , 1996bSnow 2000aSnow , 2000b.…”
Section: Old Bank: Panamanian Village In the Caribbean Seamentioning
confidence: 99%