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Example 5-39
wen wii heer about dem tingz dem dis wii doon noo wat tu do
wen
when
wii
we
heer
hear
about
about
dem
dem
tingz
things
dem
pl
dis
this
wii
we
doon
don't
noo
know
wat
what
tu
to
do
do
When we hear about these things, we don't know what to do.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Persaud 1970
: Chapt 3 (line 3)
Language:
Creolese
by
Hubert Devonish
and
Dahlia Thompson
cite
Datapoints:
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Variable plural marking of human or inanimate nouns
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