Accounting for some similarities and differences among the Indo-Portuguese creoles

The present study appeals to the notions of social organization and Portuguese presence to account for some of the key difference among the creoles spoken in Diu, Daman, and Korlai (India). The concepts of frequency and perceptual salience are tapped to account for some of the similarities among the...

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Main Author: J. Clancy Clements
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2009-12-01
Series:Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
Online Access:http://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/117