Background Resources and Readings on Pidgins and Creols

• Handout on Creoles and Pidgins
  
  
• Bibliographies on the subject of African-American Vernacular English

• Paper by Wm. Labov on reading failure and especially linguistic sources of reading problems.

• A flap over Ebonix: an Ad in the NYTimes.

• A paper on the web by Peter Patrick Testing the Creole Continuum hypothesis.

• Bibliographies: See especially archives of the CreoList website with bibliographies and other reference materials.

• Material related to the Nagamese situation: Creole or `Creoloid?'
  • Map of India and its language groups.
  • Census of India map of Nagaland.

• A site devoted to Non-standard English of various kinds, worldwide.

• Recent paper by Labov et al. on reading problems of African-American children.

• DeCamp XPak18;
  
  
• Reinecke 1975
  
  
• Holm 1988
  
  
• Hymes 1971,
  
  
• Romaine