L20A PROJECT
A DESCRIPTION OF AN ASPECT OF THE PHONOLOGY OF
AN ENGLISH-BASED CARIBBEAN CREOLE
Preliminary information:
Project Researcher: _______________________________________________________
Period data was collected: __________________________________________________
Name of Creole (used by the speakers): _______________________________________
Name of Creole (used by other speakers/neighbours):_____________________________
Geographical location of Creole Community:___________________________________
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Population of speakers: ____________________________________________________
Informant’s name: ________________________________________________________
Approximate age of informant: ______________________________________________
Occupation of informant: ___________________________________________________
Length of stay in the community:_____________________________________________
Available literature: _______________________________________________________
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Creole data to be collected in two forms:
a.
recording of the items and a short narrative
b.
phonetic transcriptions of the items and the short narrative
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WORDLIST
S/N
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
Item
face
head
hair (head)
eye
ear
nose
mouth
tooth
tongue
jaw
chin
beard
neck
breast (fem.)
heart
belly (external)
stomach (internal)
navel
back
arm
hand
nail (finger/toe)
buttocks
penis
vagina
thigh
leg
knee
body
skin
bone
blood
saliva
urine
faeces
food
water
soup/sauce
meat
fat
fish
oil
salt
1st name
2
any other name(s)
44.
45.
46.
47.
48.
49.
50.
51.
52.
53.
54.
55.
56.
57.
58.
59.
60.
61.
62.
63.
64.
65.
66.
67.
68.
69.
70.
71.
72.
73.
74.
75.
76.
77.
78.
79.
80.
81.
82.
83.
84.
85.
86.
87.
88.
89.
wine(general)
drink (beer, liquor)
yam
cassava
corn
beans
peas
pepper
okra
sugarcane
plantain
banana
orange
peanut
tobacco
cotton
seed
tree
bark (tree)
leaf
root
thorn
stick
firewood
smoke
ashes
grindingstone
knife
door
market
basket
sea
boat
sand
sun
moon
war
story
goat
dog
duck
tail
sheep
story
night
witch
3
90.
91.
92.
93.
94.
95.
96.
97.
98.
99.
100.
lice
guinep
dukunu
oil-down
cook
allspice
shrimp
snapper
tamarind
yam
barge
Narrative
The North Wind & the Sun
The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger, when a traveller
came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in
making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then
the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the
traveller fold his cloak around him; and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then
the Sun shined out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak. And so the
North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two.
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DEADLINE:
DATE:
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 30, 2005
TIME:
12:00 P.M.
NO LATE SUBMISSION WILL BE ACCEPTED WITHOUT APPROPRIATE
MEDICAL REPORT
STEPS
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2.
3.
4.
5.
LOCATE A SPEAKER OF AN ENGLISH-BASED CREOLE IN THE
CARIBBEAN (No Jamaican Creole)
RECORD THE SPEAKER’S PRONUNCIATIONS OF THE 100 ITEMS
AND NARRATIVE (FIRST TRANSLATE THE NARRATIVE WITH THE
HELP OF THE SPEAKER) ABOVE. CONDUCT YOUR RECORDINGS
IN A RELATIVELY NOISE FREE AREA
PROVIDE PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTIONS OF THE RECORDINGS
WRITE A DRAFT OF YOUR PHONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS BASED ON
THE TRANSCRIBED DATA
SUBMIT THE FINAL REPORT BEFORE CLASS TIME ON OR BEFORE
THE DEADLINE (1,000 words maximum)
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