Papers by John Victor Singler
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Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Apr 6, 2007
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Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 1992
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The international journal of speech language and the law, Dec 1, 2004
The ability of 'linguistic' asylum interviews to assess where an asylum applicant has bee... more The ability of 'linguistic' asylum interviews to assess where an asylum applicant has been socialized rests on several factors. Relevant linguistic boundaries must be known, and they must be compatible with political borders. However, even if the circumstances are such that the relation of linguistic to national boundaries is not problematic, consistently reliable evaluation is possible only if the evaluator is trained in linguistics and knowledgeable about the language under examination. The present article examines Swiss practice in assessing applicants for Liberian political asylum. Even as concerns about current procedures are expressed, the assertion is made that the system is reliable.
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John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, 1990
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De Gruyter eBooks, Dec 13, 2012
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Language, 1992
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De Gruyter eBooks, Dec 31, 2020
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UMI eBooks, 1984
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Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Jun 25, 2014
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John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, 1999
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Language, Dec 1, 1983
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Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Nov 7, 2006
From the publication of Roots of Language onward, a significant part of the debate about Derek Bi... more From the publication of Roots of Language onward, a significant part of the debate about Derek Bickerton's Language Bioprogram Hypothesis (LBH) focused on the cultural matrix of creolization, 1 The crucial test case for Bickerton was Hawai'i. Hawai'i was important for two reasons: (1) creole genesis had occurred much more recently there than in the Caribbean, and (2) despite having an entirely different set of substrate languages from Caribbean creoles, Hawai'i Creole English (HCE) looked very much like them. The recency of creolization in Hawai'i meant that it was possible to recover a great deal of information about what had taken place there. When Bickerton first started looking at HCE in the 1970's, people were still alive who had come from Japan and the Philippines early in the twentieth century to work on sugar plantations. Data from interviews with them (Bickerton & Odo 1976; Bickerton 1981) showed the speakers to be individuals whose English had scarcely moved past the jargon stage. As for the similarities between HCE and Caribbean creoles, the fact that HCE looked so similar to Caribbean creoles yet lacked substratal input from African languages effectively negated - for Bickerton at least - the claim that input from African substrate languages had played a critical role in the formation of Caribbean creoles: 'if a feature appears in one creole whose substratum lacks that feature, it does not matter if there are nine or 99 creoles whose substratum has it - for it has then been demonstrated that substratum presence is no longer a necessary condition for presence of that feature, and substratal... explanations become superfluous' (1984:215).
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Wiley-Blackwell eBooks, Mar 2, 2009
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Creole language library, 1996
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Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, May 5, 2006
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