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by employing multiple articulators. Classifiers play an important role in this process. Extensive work has been done on this important feature in many sign languages of the world. While classifiers are found in all the (national) sign languages that have been studied to date, it has been claimed that some emerging sign languages lack certain types of classifiers. It is therefore interesting to study classifiers in Trinidad & Tobago Sign Language (TTSL), which is a young(er), indigenous language that is still in the process of being documented and researched.

Figure 10 by employing multiple articulators. Classifiers play an important role in this process. Extensive work has been done on this important feature in many sign languages of the world. While classifiers are found in all the (national) sign languages that have been studied to date, it has been claimed that some emerging sign languages lack certain types of classifiers. It is therefore interesting to study classifiers in Trinidad & Tobago Sign Language (TTSL), which is a young(er), indigenous language that is still in the process of being documented and researched.

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which invariably are framed differently. provides us with a vast array of perceptions are hired to ask questions and to explore
which invariably are framed differently. provides us with a vast array of perceptions are hired to ask questions and to explore
Len Pe eee Se niet Rees DNR BL In terms of culture, they seemed to decidedly abandon their own in favour of national culture. Our three most famous national products, steelpan, calypso and Carnival, all had Portuguese support. For example, calypso and steelpan were not looked upon so favourably by certain sectors of society at one point. It was Albert Gomes who gave steelpan and calypso the legitimacy which was needed, and he did this during his political career which spanned the 1930s to the 1960s. In 1951, he also helped to liberate the Shouter Baptists (who continue to recognise and remember him). Of course, Ernest Ferreira (of Dixieland) was a steelpan pioneer. He invented the double tenor. In terms of calypso, we don’t have many well-known calypsonians of Portuguese descent but Eduardo de Sa Gomes was involved in sending the Roaring Lion, Atilla and others to record calypsos in the 1930s. And for modern Carnival, there were the Carvalhos (Peter and Glen, and now Fareid), Harold Saldenah, Edmund Hart (actually a D’Olliveira on his mother’s side), Geraldo Vieira, Kenny de Silva, and a number of others, including Monica Pereira Ferreira and Quita Cabral Correia in Kiddies’ Carnival.
Len Pe eee Se niet Rees DNR BL In terms of culture, they seemed to decidedly abandon their own in favour of national culture. Our three most famous national products, steelpan, calypso and Carnival, all had Portuguese support. For example, calypso and steelpan were not looked upon so favourably by certain sectors of society at one point. It was Albert Gomes who gave steelpan and calypso the legitimacy which was needed, and he did this during his political career which spanned the 1930s to the 1960s. In 1951, he also helped to liberate the Shouter Baptists (who continue to recognise and remember him). Of course, Ernest Ferreira (of Dixieland) was a steelpan pioneer. He invented the double tenor. In terms of calypso, we don’t have many well-known calypsonians of Portuguese descent but Eduardo de Sa Gomes was involved in sending the Roaring Lion, Atilla and others to record calypsos in the 1930s. And for modern Carnival, there were the Carvalhos (Peter and Glen, and now Fareid), Harold Saldenah, Edmund Hart (actually a D’Olliveira on his mother’s side), Geraldo Vieira, Kenny de Silva, and a number of others, including Monica Pereira Ferreira and Quita Cabral Correia in Kiddies’ Carnival.
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