Category Archives: NALIS

INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY (IMLD) 2016

Posted on February 26, 2016 by

Today’s blog post was written by Jo-Anne S. Ferreira, a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine and a member of SIL International (Americas Area).  Her academic interests are (socio)phonetics, contact linguistics, the history of Portuguese language and culture in … Continue reading →

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Mama this is Mas! – The Traditional Masquerades of Trinidad’s Carnival

Posted on January 15, 2016 by

There are three distinct features of Trinidad’s Carnival and they are the masquerade, the calypso and the steel band. In Trinidad, there is a demarcation between “masques” and “masks” as the former refers to a band which wears costumes based … Continue reading →

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