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NEWFOUNDLAND ENGLISH IS WITHOUT DOUBT the best-described of any variety of Canadian English. Yet though this observation may be true for the island portion of the province, research into the English spoken in Labrador has lagged...

Labrador English Dialect Atlas of Newfoundland and Labrador

OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS, the English Language Research Centre has fielded a number of inquiries about the representation of Labrador in the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (DNE; Story, Kirwin and Widdowson 1982). This...

Labrador English Dictionary of Newfoundland English Innu-aimun Inuttitut

By preserving the intent of the original French title of Franz Fanon’s great work, Les Damnés de la Terre as The Damned of the Earth, Lewis Gordon makes a critical contribution beyond his already notable contribution to Fanon...

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IN THE 20th CENTURY, thousands of Newfoundlanders engaged in a kind of identity management through the phonic re-construction of their surnames, in an attempt to bring their family name in line with their contemporary desires...

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IN THIS PAPER, I REPORT on the early stages of my M.A. (Linguistics) research, which focuses on the variety of English spoken in the relatively new Labrador community of Happy Valley-Goose Bay (henceforth HVGB), founded in 1941....

Labrador English Happy Valley-Goose Bay Dialect formation

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An update on the progress of the Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word-file Digitizaton Project and listing of ELRC student assistants.

Dictionary of Newfoundland English Digitization ELRC English language