Workshop 1: Introducing ICE Jamaica: Descriptive and Comparative Approaches to Standard Jamaican English
Convenor: Lars Hinrichs

Other presenters: Hubert Devonish

The Jamaican component of the International Corpus of English (ICE Jamaica), a cooperation between the teams of Hubert Devonish (UWI, Mona) and Christian Mair (University of Freiburg), is nearing completion, and will soon be available to the linguistic community.

The goals of this workshop are:
1) to introduce the Jamaican component of ICE Jamaica to students of Caribbean linguistics, and
2) to familiarise participants to practical aspects of the analysis of linguistic corpora through hands-on exercises.

Students reading the Theory Packages courses, in particular LING 2002 and LING 3002, should attend this workshop.

(Dates and times to be confirmed)

Workshop 2: Prosody in Creole Languages: Acoustic Analyses and Typology
Convenor: Shelome Gooden

Other presenters: Kathy-Ann Drayton, Yolanda Rivera Castillo and Hubert Devonish

The role of prosody in the formation of creole languages and the classifying their prosodic systems is a relatively unexplored area of research. We know that there are creoles which have lexical tone stress or a combination of both, but it is not clear how these features are distributed among the varieties since there are very few prosodic analyses available. The main goal of the workshop is to stimulate new research that includes acoustic-phonetic analyses as well as phonological data in order to shed light on the precise nature of the prosodic systems of Caribbean creoles. This will have the effect of broadening the number of analyses of prosodies of these languages as well as our understanding of the prosodic systems cross-linguistically.

Students reading the Theory Packages courses, in particular LING 2001 and LING 3001, should attend this workshop.

(Dates and times to be confirmed)

Workshop 3: Portuguese-lexified Creole Languages: Exploring the Papiamentu-Cape Verde Connections
Convenor: Marlyse Baptista

Other presenters: Yolanda Rivera Castillo and Silvia Kouwenberg

More information to follow.

Students reading the Romance Creoles Package courses, in particular LING 2803 and LING 2601, should attend this workshop.