Diglossia revisited: French and Creole in Haiti

From Post-Creole Continuum to Diglossia: The Case of Singapore English

Singapore English, a recently nativised (Gupta 1994) variety of English, has often been analysed in terms of a continuum (Pakir 1991; Platt 1975; Poedjosoedarmo 1995). A more recent approach (Gupta 1994, 2001) regards this variation as one reflecting a diglossic situation: Standard (Singapore) English is H(igh), Colloquial Singapore English (‘Singlish’) is L(ow). This paper presents findings fr...

The perception of the French /s/-/ʃ/ contrast in early Creole-French bilinguals

One particularity of the Mauritian Creole language is that there is no contrastive distinction between the consonants /s/ and /ʃ/, which are both pronounced /s/ in Creole. In this study, we examined the identification performance of the /s/-/ʃ/ contrast by Mauritian Creole-French bilinguals who have been exposed to French before 7 years of age, and who have been raised in a highly Creole-French...

Resveratrol: French Paradox Revisited

Resveratrol is a polyphenol that plays a potentially important role in many disorders and has been studied in different diseases. The research on this chemical started through the "French paradox," which describes improved cardiovascular outcomes despite a high-fat diet in French people. Since then, resveratrol has been broadly studied and shown to have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-prol...

Anou Tradir: Experiences In Building Statistical Machine Translation Systems For Mauritian Languages - Creole, English, French

We present, in this paper, our experiences in developing Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) systems involving English, French and Mauritian Creole, the languages most spoken in Mauritius. We give a brief overview of the peculiarities of the language phenomena in Mauritian Creole and indicate the differences between it and English and French. We then give descriptions of the developed corpora...

Modern Phylogenetics and Creole Evolution: Creole Family Values