Palenquero and Spanish in Contact

Lipski, John Μ.

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“…Examples of proficiency measurements that have been used are self-report questionnaires, sociolinguistic interviews, and judgements from teachers and community leaders. With regard to characteristics that can set Palenquero heritage/L2 speakers apart from fluent adult speakers, researchers have analyzed "the usage of preverbal particles (Lipski 2020b;Smith 2013Smith , 2014, Spanish-like feminine gender agreement (Lipski 2015(Lipski , 2018b, placement and processing of the negative elements (Lipski 2010(Lipski , 2017(Lipski , 2018a, use of the pluralizer ma (Cassiani-Obeso and Smith 2021; Lipski 2012Lipski , 2014Moñino 2007Moñino , 2013Schwegler 2007b), and overall performances with interviews and translation tasks (Lipski 2020a(Lipski , 2020b)" (Lipski 2020c, p. 3).…”

Section: Bilingual Status Of the Palenquero Speakersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Adult speakers of Palenquero (almost) always use ma to mark plural contexts (Cassiani-Obeso and Smith 2021), while L2 speakers often extend ma indiscriminately to singular as well as plural referents (Lipski 2020c). A variety of production tasks (e.g., picture naming, written assignments, sociolinguistic interviews) have also provided evidence for the overextension of ma by younger speakers (Lipski 2012(Lipski , 2014(Lipski , 2015(Lipski , 2020a(Lipski , 2020bDeibel 2020). It has been suggested that younger speakers may not recognize the function of ma as a plural marker (Lipski 2020c, p. 5).…”

Section: At Schoolmentioning

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Reinforcement of Grammatical Structures through Explicit Instruction in Palenquero Creole: A Pilot Study

Obeso

2021

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The Afro-Hispanic creole, Palenquero, has been spoken (together with Spanish) in the village of San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia, for centuries. Until recently, Palenquero was endangered due to prejudice, but language revitalization efforts are underway, and younger speakers are learning Palenquero, but with little reinforcement out of school. The school instruction involves no grammatical explanations, almost no student production, or critical feedback. Adult speakers usually do not address younger speakers in Palenquero, thus leaving school-acquired forms suspended without reinforcement. This represents a unique scenario of heritage acquisition of a language with no bidirectional communication between younger and adult speakers. The present study focuses on the use of preverbal particles and prenominal plural marker by heritage speakers of Palenquero before and after explicit instruction. Communication activities explicitly presented the prenominal plural ma and preverbal particles, such as zero morpheme (simple present), asé (habitual), ta (progressive), a (perfective/simple past) and tan (future). Participants performed better at the post-test and results suggest that explicit explanation of grammatical rules, practice, repetition, and corrective feedback improved the usage of ma and tan. This result lines up with previous studies that posit the amount of time and exposure that learners need in order to acquire complex morphology.

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Section: Bilingual Status Of the Palenquero Speakersmentioning

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Section: At Schoolmentioning

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Reinforcement of Grammatical Structures through Explicit Instruction in Palenquero Creole: A Pilot Study

Obeso

2021

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Language Revitalization as L2 Shadow Boxing

Lipski

2020

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In the Afro-Colombian community of San Basilio de Palenque, there are school-based efforts to revitalize the once-endangered creole language Palenquero. At present, most Palenquero language classes do not include grammatical instruction, active student production, or corrective feedback, and there is little or no communication in Palenquero between L2 learners and fluent adult speakers. One result is that L2 Palenquero speakers are overgeneralizing the Palenquero prenominal plural marker to singular contexts, in a fashion that partly suggests a Spanish-influenced misinterpretation as a definite article. The present study summarizes oral and written production, and then analyzes processing data from an eye-tracking experiment confirming L2 learners’ emergent restructuring of the Palenquero plural marker. L2 learners have regularized perceived variation similar to learners of artificial languages, and the morphological marking of plurality is seemingly being lost, possibly morphing into an emergent but still unstable definiteness marker effectively delinked from number.

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New perspectives on Spanish socio-historical linguistics

Drinka

Chappell

2021

Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics

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Palenquero and Spanish in Contact

Cited by 5 publications

References 230 publications

Reinforcement of Grammatical Structures through Explicit Instruction in Palenquero Creole: A Pilot Study

Reinforcement of Grammatical Structures through Explicit Instruction in Palenquero Creole: A Pilot Study

Language Revitalization as L2 Shadow Boxing

New perspectives on Spanish socio-historical linguistics

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