Differentiating pidgin from early interlanguage - A comparison of Pidgin Nguni (Fanakalo) and interlanguage varieties of Xhosa and Zulu

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 75-89

  Mesthrie, Rajend ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249804811     PISSN: 16073614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/16073610709486447     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Adendorff R. 1995. Fanakalo in South African. In: Mesthde R (ed.) Language and Social History: Studies in South African Sociolinguistics. Cape Town: David Philip, pp 176-192.
2. Andersen R. 1981. Two perspectives on pidginization as second language acquisition. In: Andersen RW (ed.) New Dimensions in Second Language Acquisition Research. Rowley, MA.: Newbury House, pp 165-196.
3. Baker P. 1995. Motivation in Creole genesis. In Baker P (ed.) From Contact to Creole and beyond. London: University of Westminster Press, pp 3-15.
4. Bickerton D. 1971. 'Inherent variability and variable rules'. Foundations of Language 7: 457-492.
5. Bickerton D & Odo C. 1976. Change and Variation in Hawaiian English, Vol I: General Phonology and Pidgin Syntax. University of Hawaii: Social Sciences and Linguistics Institute.
6. Bold JD. 1977. Fanagalo - phrase book, grammar and dictionary (10th edn). Johannesburg: Ernest Stanton.
7. Cole DT. 1953. Fanagalo and the Bantu Languages in South Africa. African Studies 12: 1-9.
8. Deumert A. 2003. Markedness and salience in language contact and second-language acquisition: evidence from a non-canonical contact language. Language Sciences 25: 561-613.
9. Doke CM. 1937. Language. In: Schapera I (ed.) The Bantu-Speaking Tribes of South Africa. Cape Town: Maskew Miller, pp 309-331.
10. Doke CM & Vilakazi BW. 1972. Zulu-English Dictionary. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press.
11. Ellis R. 1994. The Study of Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
12. Ferraz L. 1980. Notes on a Pidgin dialect. African Studies 39: 209-220.
13. Gxilishe S. 2004. The acquisition of clicks by Xhosa-speaking children. Per Linguam 20(2): 1-12.
14. Klein W & Perdue C. 1997. The basic variety (or Couldn't natural languages be much simpler?). Second Language Research 13(4): 301-347.
15. Mamhall J. 1997. An analysis of second-language Xhosa in a farming community in South Africa. Reading Working Papers in Linguistics 3: 293-307.
16. Mayne R. 1947. Conversational Zulu for the Home. Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter.
17. McLaughlin B. 1987. Theories of Second-Language Learning. London: Edward Arnold.
18. Mesthrie R. 1989. The odgins of Fanagalo. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics 4(2): 211-40.
19. Mesthrie R. 1998. Words across worlds: aspects of language contact and language learning in the Eastern Cape, 1800-1850. African Studies 57(1): 5-26.
20. Schumann J. 1974. Implications of pidginisation and creolisation for the study of adult second language acquisition. In: Gingras RC (ed.) Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching. Arlington, VA: Centre for Applied Linguistics, pp 137-151.
21. Schumann J and Stauble A. 1983. A discussion of second language acquisition and decreolisation. In Andersen R (ed.) Pidginisation and Creolisation as Language Acquisition. Rowley, MA: Newbury House, pp 247-260.
22. Siegel J. 2003. Substrate influence in Creoles and the role of transfer in second language acquisition. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 25(2): 185-209.
23. Suzman S. 1991. Language Acquisition in Zulu. PhD dissertation, University of Witwatersrand.
24. Suzman S. 1999. Learn Zulu the way children do. South African Journal of African Languages 19(2): 134-147.
25. Taljaard PC & Bosch SE. 1988. Handbook of isiZulu. Pretoria: van Schaik.
26. Wildsmith-Cromarty R. 2003. Do learners learn Zulu the way children do? A response to Suzman. South African Journal of African Languages. 23(3): 175-188.