PPT-A spoken corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English: Compilation, applications and next steps

Melanie Green Sussex UK Gabriel Ozón Sheffield UK Philologica l Society Meeting 19 January 2019 Outline Overview of the project About the language Research context Objectives amp research team. Creole translations of the Bible. . Most Creoles grew up around the trade routes of these empires…. British. French. Spanish. Portuguese. Dutch. Two families of pidgin English. Atlantic. Pacific. Developed in West Africa, transported to West Indies & America during slavery. In Africa they are still widely used in: Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria & Cameroon.. March 26, 2012. Ermile. Hargrove, presenter. “. Vernaculect. ,” is that like Intellect?. “. Vernaculect. ” . (coined by Jeff Siegel). The way we talk is influenced by our socio-linguistic and socio-cultural experiences and our communities of interaction and . Every . language has a lot of variation, especially in the way it is spoken. . If we . just look at English, we find widespread variation in the way it is spoken in . different countries . such as . Australia, Britain . :. Wunderbar. ! . Incroyable. ! . Straordinario. ! . д. ивовижний. !. By Joyce Arthur. For Friends in Wonderment, May 3, 2015. 1. Wondrous Facts!. 7,102 living languages today (world population 7.3 billion). Corpus design is intrinsic . and a . fundamental part of . the . analysis. .. It is guided by the RQ and affects the results.. Design criteria are interpretative and must be . explicit (why you chose the texts you did, how and why you . McKayla Blanch and Caroline Ferguson. Dept. of Geology, Colby College. (https://www.flickr.com/photos/88821481@N00/1647496982/in/photolist-3vzRso-cxDfaL-ctH1dq-ctGYPb-ctGZHu-ctGZfw-ctH1Jf-cxEPbd-ctH2eq-ctH3vq-ctH3d1-ctH8j7-ctH2Sw-ctH8Jj-ctH4m7-ctH5Yh-ctHaGs-ctH6Bj-5Y2rUp-ctH7UA-ctH4Do-cxEQoJ-ctH531-ctH95U-ctH9D1-ctH5ub-ctHabA-ctH75Q-ctH3RY-7FEmh6-cx6ZJu-cx71wh-cx717C-9a1M1G-5Y6DGf-8giBNa-8w4cV2-cxENHA-5uqsgT-515uTd-eaLCA4-7JBen8-ctHb6S-cxDbru-ctH7wj-eMQBmE-ctH2z3-6NDn8h-6NDnkA-6NDnfw). Founding. Dean Gordon Smith. BYU Law School. Why corpus linguistics?. The . s. earch for meaning in naturally . occurring speech and text. Why not just ask . people?. The “Observer’s Paradox” tells us that data is not . Brain-ring. Look at the picture, describe it and. answer the questions:. What was your first English teacher’s name?. How long have you been leaning English for?. Why . do many people all over the world learn English. Language Diversity. Numerous countries throughout the world operate with multiple languages.. Some are effective and some are ineffective.. Language . Diversity - Switzerland. Peacefully . exists with multiple languages.. A . language . variety where . users . regional . /. . s. ocial. . background appears in . their. . use of . vocabulary . &. . grammar. . DIALECT. T. he . features of pronunciation (the . speech. b Tutorial. “Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.”. -Rita Mae Brown. OBJECTIVE: To teach definitions and multiple examples of cultural vocabulary terms related to language and improve student scores on the unit vocabulary quiz.. Get out your handout from yesterday. Have one person from your group go grab the same packet you had LAST yesterday (they are in the back). Willkommen!. Get out your notes from yesterday. Read your AP "To Do" list – you've got a quiz tomorrow and another one Monday :) . Bonaventure M. SALA. Department of English. University of . Yaounde. I. Outline. . Preliminaries. Background . Design and Method . Ellipsis in . CamE. Pro-forms in . CamE. Raw data. Conclusion . . Quite often, people usually spend all time studying the basic grammar as well as memorizing lists of the words rather than actually going out as well as putting what they have learned in practice.