TY - BOOK AU - Simmons-McDonald, Hazel. AU - Robertson, Ian. AU - Christie, Pauline. TI - Exploring the Boundaries of Caribbean Creole Languages SN - 976640187X (pbk.) AV - PM7831 .E97 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Kingston, Jamaica PB - UWI Press KW - Creole dialects KW - Caribbean Area KW - Sears List of Subject Headings KW - Language and education KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Engelse creooltalen KW - gtt KW - Caribisch gebied N1 - "The work is dedicated to the distinguished Caribbean linguist Pauline Christie and celebrates her contribution to the study of linguistics in the Caribbean"--P. [4] of cover; Includes bibliographical references; The contribution of Pauline Christie to the study of linguistics in the Caribbean; Robert Le Page --; "Memory of Mona"; Frederic G. Cassidy --; Challenging the definition of Creole; Ian Robertson --; Tense and aspect in Belize Creole; Donald Winford --; Phonological signatures of Tobagonian speech in Trinidad and Tobago; Winford James --; On the status of diphthongs in Jamaican : Mr. Vegas pronounces; Hubert Devonish --; The use of the vernacular in West Indian education; Dennis Craig --; Vernacular instruction and bi-literacy development : French-Creole speakers; Hazel Simmons-McDonald --; Issues of face-saving in the pre-school classroom; Valerie Youssef --; Creole representation in literary discourse : issues of linguistic and discourse analysis; Barbara Lalla --; Is the pain in your belly-bottom? : extending the boundaries of Jamaican Creole to non-native users; Kathryn Shields-Brodber --; Asou down-there : code-mixing in a bilingual community; Martha Isaac --; Globalization and the language of Rastafari; Velma Pollard ER -