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Download full textHudson, Joyce – 1985
A study of the Kriol spoken in Australia's Fitzroy Valley begins with an overview of pidgins and creoles, and chronicles the historical beginnings of the Fitzroy Valley Kriol and the sociolinguistic situation there. Some grammatical features of Kriol are analyzed and compared to traditional Australian languages. Problems of assigning English…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Communication Problems, Contrastive Linguistics, Creoles
