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Roberts, Sarah J.

The emergence of Hawai'i Creole English in the early 20th century: The sociohistorical context of Creole genesis.

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Title/Author:	The emergence of Hawai'i Creole English in the early 20th century: The sociohistorical context of Creole genesis.
Author:	Roberts, Sarah J.
Description:	360 p.
Notes:	Adviser: John R. Rickford.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-11, Section: A, page: 4179.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-11A.
Subject:	Language, Linguistics.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3153512
ISBN:	9780496138272

The emergence of Hawai'i Creole English in the early 20th century: The sociohistorical context of Creole genesis.
Roberts, Sarah J.

The emergence of Hawai'i Creole English in the early 20th century: The sociohistorical context of Creole genesis. - 360 p.

Adviser: John R. Rickford.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2005.

The evidence leads me to conclude that HCE took two generations to develop and was not acquired in L1 acquisition until the third generation. This is contrary to Bickerton's emphasis on L1 acquisition for second-generation children. I also question the emphasis placed on the plantation setting as a crucial context for HCE's formation and I show that the dichotomous comparison Bickerton made between the HPE and HCE of his informants was too stark. Nevertheless, this study also finds that Bickerton correctly surmised that locally-born children did play a critical role in development of HCE and that contact with other varieties was important for HPE but not HCE.

ISBN: 9780496138272Subjects--Topical Terms:

212724
Language, Linguistics.

The emergence of Hawai'i Creole English in the early 20th century: The sociohistorical context of Creole genesis.
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520 # $a This dissertation examines the origins of Hawai'i Creole English (HCE), a language otherwise known to its speakers as "Pidgin" and one which now serves as a vernacular for most of Hawai'i's non-white population. HCE has figured prominently in debates on the genesis of creole languages. Derek Bickerton, in particular, claimed that HCE arose catastrophically in the speech of children who needed to learn the pidgin spoken by their parents to have a native language. According to Bickerton, an innate bioprogram expanded the inadequate pidgin into a fully natural language. Others have claimed that much of its structure was derived through contact with pre-existing pidgin and creole varieties or through influence from substrate and superstrate languages.
520 # $a With historical and documentary data gathered during several years of archival research, I reconstruct the linguistic development of HCE and its pidgin ancestor in their respective social contexts. The data reveal not only diachronic change in the copula, the tense-modality-aspect system, and other features, but also social differentiation in the use of such features. When the various linguistic changes are compared, they show that HCE arose around 1900--1910 and became fully established by the 1930s. I also discuss developments in the political economy, immigration and demography, and patterns of contact between ethnic groups, and examine the linguistic practice and social life of locally-born children throughout the period of creole development. Such contextualization is critical to an understanding of the social forces of creole formation.
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