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AFROCREOLISME [1 record]

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Record 1 2010-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
CONT

As J.L. Dillard, professor of linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico and a scholar of Afro-Creole-Pidgin and of Black American speech, has pointed out, many southern children once learned their basic speech patterns on the lap of a slave mammy, thereby acquiring Afro-Creolisms they then assumed to be simple home-grown usages.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Mot ou tournure d'origine africaine transposé dans la langue créole du sud des États-Unis.

OBS

Afrocréolisme a été proposé par le comité de référence en néologie. Il est construit à partir du préfixe afro- et de la base créolisme : «expression propre aux parlers créoles».

Spanish

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