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American and Mauritian researchers collaborate on scientific study of Mauritian Creole
via Le Mauricien4 min read
A delegation of American researchers, funded by NSF-IRES, spent a month in Mauritius collecting data on Mauritian Creole for linguistic analysis as part of the Documenting and Analyzing Creole Languages project. This initiative fostered knowledge sharing and achieved several objectives, including creating resources for Automatic Speech Recognition software development, strengthening collaboration with local researchers, and contributing to the description of Mauritian Creole grammar. The project aims to advance understanding of the internal structure of Mauritian Creole and open new research and collaboration opportunities. Researchers involved include Donna Park, studying serial verbs to understand the interaction of languages in Mauritius's history; Fabiola Henri, an Associate Professor of Linguistics specializing in the morphology of Creole languages, whose research indicates Mauritian Creole is a complex language influenced by Bantu languages; Eric Le Ferrand, exploring data collection methods for language technologies like speech recognition for Mauritian Creole; Tamara Svehla, examining phonology and prosody, specifically vowel length, to demonstrate the language's richness; Ashkay Lakharam, researching reduplicated adverbs in Mauritian Creole syntax; Mary Evelyne White, a linguistics student comparing grammatical gender systems in Mauritian Creole and Haitian Creole; Aminah Raysor, focusing on professional development for world language teachers and developing an Afro-
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