Participants must be born and raised in Hawai‘i and be at least 18 years old. They should speak and understand Pidgin (a.k.a. Hawai‘i Creole) as a first language. The task involves reading and listening to Pidgin sentences and making judgements about whether the sentences are good Pidgin (how a Pidgin speaker would actually say them)..
2013 – present This research project serves to document processes of language shift, language loss, language maintenance and language addition across generations of speakers in Hawai‘i and seeks to understand the reasons for these phenomenon such as interethnic marriage and the growth of diaspora communities. The project is also interested in whether and to what degree..
