Language Variation Paul Kerswill gives paper on London Jamaican at SPCL, Accra, Ghana (with Mark Sebba)
Date: 3 August 2011 - 6 August 2011
Paul Kerswill gave a paper (co-authored with Mark Sebba) entitled 'From London Jamaican to British youth language: The transformation of a Caribbean post-creole repertoire into a new Multicultural London English' at the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics conference at the University of Ghana at Legon, Accra. This paperis part of a project funded by Lancaster University using recently digitisedrecordings of Jamaicans and Jamaican-descended people from 1970 and 1983, alongside data collected in 2005-8.
News website: http://www.uni-giessen.de/cms/faculties/f05/engl/ling/spcl
Further information
Associated staff: Paul Kerswill, Mark Sebba (Linguistics and English Language)
Associated departments and research centres: Language Variation and Linguistic Theory (LVLT), Linguistics and English Language