David Tezil

List of John Benjamins publications in which David Tezil is involved.

Articles

Owens, Kaitlyn and David Tezil 2026 Navigating prestige variants across multiple dimensions: Evidence from /r/ and /w/ variation in Haitian Creole Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages: Online-First Articles | Article
In this study, we examine which characteristics are routinely associated with linguistic variants, and how the sociolinguistic and societal landscape may influence the range of possible characteristics by analyzing realizations of /r/ and /w/ in Haitian Creole. In Haitian Creole, [r] and [w] are… read more
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Tezil, David 2022 On the influence of Kreyòl swa: Evidence from the nasalization of the Haitian Creole determiner /la/ in non-nasal environments Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 37:2, pp. 291–320 | Article
The Haitian Creole (Kreyòl) spoken by bilingual speakers is a prestigious form of speech generally referred to as Kreyòl swa (KS), where Frenchified features (e.g. front rounded vowels) are often used. In contrast, monolingual speakers use Kreyòl rèk (KR), a variety in which Frenchified features… read more
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