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View article: CreoleVal: Multilingual Multitask Benchmarks for Creoles
CreoleVal: Multilingual Multitask Benchmarks for Creoles Open
Creoles represent an under-explored and marginalized group of languages, with few available resources for NLP research. While the genealogical ties between Creoles and a number of highly resourced languages imply a significant potential fo…
View article: CreoleVal: Multilingual Multitask Benchmarks for Creoles
CreoleVal: Multilingual Multitask Benchmarks for Creoles Open
Creoles represent an under-explored and marginalized group of languages, with few available resources for NLP research.While the genealogical ties between Creoles and a number of highly-resourced languages imply a significant potential for…
View article: Perspectives on Creole Formation
Perspectives on Creole Formation Open
This paper is another argument in favor of a uniformitarian approach to Creole languages, analyzed on a par with non-Creole languages. We take a critical look at competing hypotheses about the formation of Creole languages and any resultin…
View article: Error correction and social transformation in Creole studies and among Creole speakers: The case of Haiti
Error correction and social transformation in Creole studies and among Creole speakers: The case of Haiti Open
Mark Lewis asks that socially engaged linguists go beyond Labov's (1982) principle of error correction (PEC) so that we can enlist critical race theory (CRT) to address ‘more difficult and fundamental questions of the sociohistorical condi…
View article: A Null Theory of Creole Formation Based on Universal Grammar
A Null Theory of Creole Formation Based on Universal Grammar Open
Creole languages are typically the linguistic side effects of the creation of global economies based on the forced migration and labor of enslaved Africans toiling in European colonies in the Americas. Section 1 addresses terminological an…