서인도제도의 로망스어 관련 혼성어 발음에 관한 고찰 - 중미의 $Gar\acute{i}funa$어와 큐바내 Patois어를 중심으로 -

A Study of Creole Languages' Pronunciation in the West Indies - Centering on Central American $Gar\acute{i}funa$ and Cuban Patois

  • 김우중 (대구효성가톨릭대학교 외국어대학 서어서문학과)
  • 발행 : 1999.04.01

초록

This study deals with a general review of $Gar\acute{i}funa$ and Patois, creole languages which developed out of the sociohistorical situation of the last centuries and are mainly spoken in the West Indies and Carribean Coasts. In this paper, I present some notes and ideas on the linguistic developments and features of these languages. Especially I describe their function connected with a variety of social circumstances and their phonetical/phonological changes from the base languages. This is a result of fieldwork conducted in Honduras, Belize, Cuba and Mexico, from January 1996 to February 1998, using some surveys and collecting words from different materials and texts. And I hope this paper will contribute to research in 'mixed' languages as well as to historical linguists. I am very grateful to Mr. Mauricio $Tom\acute{a}s$, the only uriversity student in $Traves\acute{i}a$, a small town in nothern Honduras and to Mr. Carlos Marcos, a medical student who is from a Haitian family in Santiago de Cuba. Without their cooperation, I couldn't have conducted this research.

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