San Andres-Providence Creole English

Bartens, Angela

doi:10.1515/9783110280128.237

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“…In a speech community of this size, it is safe to assume a greater maintenance of Islander Creole permeated less by the presence of Spanish in comparison to San Andres. In fact, speakers of Island Creole have far fewer daily interactions with Spanish speakers, due to more rigid protective measures against new immigrants, the insistence of the locals for their English legacy (Bartens, 2013), and the value of English as the international language of tourism (Flórez, 2006). As a result, Islander is still prevalent in most aspects of the lives of Raizales (Moya-Chaves, 2014;Bartens, 2013;Flórez, 2006;Bartens, 2002;Morren, 2001), and has helped to maintain the prestige on this Islander variety.…”

Section: The Creole Communities Of the Archipelagomentioning

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Converging Paths of Variation: Bilingual Rhotics and Language Change in the Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia

Ramos

2022

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This study examines the acoustic realization of phonemic taps and trills across generations of Creole-Spanish bilinguals in the Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia. Formant frequencies in the form of F2 and F3 were compared in the realization of 1,450 rhotics presenting no lingual closure produced in the bilingual Spanish speech of three generations of Creole-Spanish speakers. Alongside, F2 and F3 values were extracted from rhotic segments produced in the monolingual varieties coexisting in the Archipelago, Islander Creole (n=328) and Colombian Continental Spanish (n=150). Results show that F3 frequencies and the distance between F3-F2 in senior bilinguals increasingly resemble the values in Islander Creole approximants, whereas younger generations are more closely associated to Continental Spanish. Supporting this trend is the fact that second generation speakers stand at an intermediate position between generations. These findings suggest a change in progress where approximants in younger generations are converging in the direction of Colombian Spanish, while formant frequencies in seniors are more associated with Islander Creole.

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Section: The Creole Communities Of the Archipelagomentioning

confidence: 99%

Converging Paths of Variation: Bilingual Rhotics and Language Change in the Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia

Ramos

2022

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“…Washabaugh et al estimate that between 25-35 % of signs in PISL contain movements of the face and or body, compared to a mere 1.9% of signs in American Sign Language (Washabaugh et al 1978;Washabaugh 1986). These non-manuals include mouthing of spoken words, a phenomenon stemming from contact with the local spoken languages (Crasborn et al 2008), in this case Spanish, English and Islander Creole English (Bartens 2013;García León & García León 2019).…”

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“…3 Given the high degree of lexical overlap between Islander Creole and Standard English (Bartens 2013), it is difficult to designate mouthings as stemming from one or the other. We assume Creole for the purposes of this paper, since…”

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Initial person reference in Providence Island Sign Language

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Steinbach

2021

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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When referring to non-present entities, speakers and signers can select from a range of different strategies to create expressions that range from extremely concise to highly elaborate. This design of referring expressions is based partly on the availability of contextual information that can aid addressee understanding. In the small signing community of Providence Island, signers’ heavy reliance on extra-linguistic information has led to their language being labelled as context-dependent (Washabaugh, de Santis & Woodward 1978). This study investigates the semiotic strategies that deaf signers in Providence Island use to introduce non-present third person referents, and examines how signers optimise specificity and minimise ambiguity by drawing on shared context. We examined first introductions to non-present people in spontaneous dyadic conversations between deaf signers and analysed the semiotic strategies used. We found that signers built referring expressions using the same strategies found in other sign languages, yet designed expressions that made use of contextual knowledge shared through community membership, such as geography, local spoken languages and traits of fellow islanders. Our signers also used strategies described as unusual or unattested in other sign languages, such as unframed constructed action sequences and stand-alone mouthings. This study deepens our understanding of context dependence by providing examples of how context is drawn upon by communities with high degrees of shared knowledge. Our results call into question the classification of sign languages as context-dependent or context-independent and highlights the differences in data collection across communities and the resulting limitations of cross-linguistic comparisons.

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“…There are three major spoken languages used in the island. An English-lexifier creole (termed Islander Creole English in the literature) is the primary language of everyday use in Providence (Bartens, 2013). Spanish is commonly used in official settings, as a result of pressures for national assimilation from the central government (Ramírez-Cruz, 2017).…”

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“…English is found in religious settings, especially in some churches (García León & García León, 2019;Ramírez-Cruz, 2017). In this multilingual setting, the creole is the dominant language, however there is frequent borrowing and code mixing with Spanish (Bartens, 2013), especially among younger generations.…”

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Sampling Signers in Providence Island: Reflections on a Small-Scale Documentation Project

Omardeen

2021

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Providence Island Sign Language is an indigenous sign language of Colombia, used in the Caribbean Island of Providence (Spanish: Providencia). First described in the 1960s and 1970s, the sign language has received little follow up research. In this paper I introduce a small-scale documentation project of PISL that began in 2019 and is ongoing. I describe the aim, methods and output of this project and reflect on data collection, particularly with respect to sampling members of the language community. This paper contributes to the ongoing discussions around best practices in sign language documentation, by adding a case study focused on sampling in a micro-community sign language.

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San Andres-Providence Creole English

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Converging Paths of Variation: Bilingual Rhotics and Language Change in the Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia

Converging Paths of Variation: Bilingual Rhotics and Language Change in the Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia

Initial person reference in Providence Island Sign Language

Sampling Signers in Providence Island: Reflections on a Small-Scale Documentation Project

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