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BL
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954025
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b708395
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Patrick, Peter L.
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Urban Jamaican creole : : variation in the mesolect /\ Peter L. Patrick.
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| Publication Statement
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Amsterdam ;Philadelphia :: J. Benjamins Pub.,, ©1999.
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| Series Statement
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Varieties of English around the world. General series ;; v. 17
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1 online resource (xx, 329 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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| ISBN
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155619448X
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: 902729853X
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: 9781556194481
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: 9789027298539
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155619448X
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9027248753
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-320) and indexes.
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| Contents
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URBAN JAMAICAN CREOLE; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 The Urban Speech Community of Kingston, Jamaica; CHAPTER 3 Field Methods and Data Analysis; CHAPTER 4 Phonolexical Variation: Palatal Glides; CHAPTER 5 Phonological Variation: Consonant Cluster Simplification; CHAPTER 6 Creole Pre-Verbal Past-Markers; CHAPTER 7 Past-Marking by Verb Inflection; CHAPTER 8 Social Variation in the Veeton Speech Community; References; Index of Language Varieties.
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| Abstract
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A synchronic sociolinguistic study of Jamaican Creole (JC) as spoken in urban Kingston, this work uses variationist methods to closely investigate two key concepts of Atlantic Creole studies: the mesolect, and the creole continuum. One major concern is to describe how linguistic variation patterns with social influences. Is there a linguistic continuum? How does it correlate with social factors? The complex organization of an urbanizing Caribbean society and the highly variable nature of mesolectal speech norms and behavior present a challenge to sociolinguistic variation theory. The second chi.
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Creole dialects, English-- Variation-- Jamaica.
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Urban dialects-- Jamaica-- Kingston.
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Creole dialects, English-- Variation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- General.
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Urban dialects.
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Dialecten.
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Engelse creooltalen.
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Taalvariatie.
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Jamaica, Kingston.
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Jamaica.
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| Dewey Classification
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427/.97292
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| LC Classification
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PM7874.J3P38 1999eb
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