Events

The Institute will be enriched by specialist workshops, public lectures, field trips, and a hands-on mini-course in Linguistics software. Workshops are free to all students and participants, but space is limited. Please contact us at clli2008 (a) uwimona.edu.jm to indicate your interest and reserve a place. Download the calendar of events in PDF format from http://clli.centre.uwi.edu/clli-2008-calendar-of-events/.

Workshop 1: Introducing ICE Jamaica: Descriptive and Comparative Approaches to Standard Jamaican English (Dr Lars Hinrichs) (Ashcroft Computer Lab, Faculty of Humanities and Education (see below for directions), from July 18, 2008 09:00 AM to July 18, 2008 05:00 PM) — by Jo-Anne S Ferreira

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 and Postgraduate packages should attend this workshop. Dates and times to be confirmed. The Workshop is now full. Please contact us at clli2008 (a) uwimona.edu.jm for further information.

Workshop 2: Prosody in Creole Languages: Acoustic Analyses and Typology (Dr Shelome Gooden et al) (Ashcroft Computer Lab, Faculty of Humanities and Education (see below for directions), from July 19, 2008 09:00 AM to July 19, 2008 05:00 PM) — by Jo-Anne S Ferreira

The role of prosody in the formation of creole languages and the classifying of 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 and 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 and Postgraduate courses should attend this workshop. Dates and times to be confirmed. Workshop space is limited. Please contact us at clli2008 (a) uwimona.edu.jm to indicate your interest and reserve a place.

Workshop 3: Portuguese-lexified Creole Languages: Exploring the Papiamentu-Cape Verde Connections (Dr Marlyse Baptista et al) (Room O1 (Old Arts Block), Faculty of Humanities & Education, from July 20, 2008 09:00 AM to July 20, 2008 05:00 PM) — by Jo-Anne S Ferreira

The main objective of this workshop is to explore the historical, linguistic and educational connections between Papiamentu and Cape Verdean Creole. We investigate the historical and linguistic evidence supporting a scenario in which Papiamentu, Cape Verdean Creole, Guinea-Bissau and Guene would be all part of a West-African Portuguese continuum. Linguistic evidence will be drawn from a thorough study of tone patterns and their typological ramifications, as well as Tense, Mood and Aspect markers. On the educational level, a number of connections will be made between language policy in Curaçao and in Cape Verde islands. We will draw parallels between their orthographic choices, governmental policies, representation and use of creoles as mother tongues in schools and the challenges they have faced in gaining visibility and respect in the classroom context. Students reading LING 2803 should attend this workshop. Dates and times to be confirmed. Workshop space is limited. Please contact us at clli2008 (a) uwimona.edu.jm to indicate your interest and reserve a place.

Public Lecture: Linguistic Profiling and Racial Discrimination in the African Diaspora (Prof John Baugh) (Aubrey Fraser Lecture Theatre, Norman Manley Law School, from July 24, 2008 06:00 PM to July 24, 2008 07:00 PM) — by Jo-Anne S Ferreira

Professor John Baugh is an American linguist and education expert, particularly in the sometimes controversial field of ebonics in the US. Professor Baugh is based at Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri, USA) where he is director of African and African American Studies and professor of Psychology.