Jeff ALLEN

Creole Linguistics

Sociolinguistics

ALLEN, Jeff. 1992. Former lexifier language acquisition: a case for creole language studies. Paper presented at the Colloque International: Les Langues In l'Europe Communautaire at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (Netherlands), 25-28 November 1992.

ALLEN, Jeff. 1992. Former lexifier language acquisition. In Working Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics in St. Lucia. Volume 5. 5 pp.

http://linguafranka.net/saintluciancreole/workpapers.htm

ALLEN, Jeff. 1992. Francophonie ou Créolophonie? Seminar presented at the Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres (IUFM) de Lyon, 7 October 1992.

ALLEN, Jeff. 1992. Les théories de la pidginisation et la créolisation. Seminar presented at the Université Lyon 2, 24 January 1992.

ALLEN, Jeff. 1992. Sainte-Lucie: Description Sociolinguistique d'une île antillaise Maîtrise (Masters) Thesis. Département des Sciences du Langage, Université Lyon 2. 111 pp. https://www.box.net/shared/zpqnyf59cc

ALLEN, Jeff. 1993. Les créoles à base lexicale du français: un parcours historique. Seminar presented at the Université Lyon 2, 4 February 1993.

ALLEN, Jeff (chapter co-author) 1997. Carrington, Lawrence et al. "Social Contexts Conducive to the Vernacularization of literacy." In Andrée Tabouret Keller et al. (eds). Vernacular Literacy Revisited. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 82-92.

Allen, Jeffrey. 1998. “Jones E. Mondesir, September 19, 1915 – November 17, 1996”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 13:2, 373 ff. http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=JPCL%2013%3A2

Phonetics/Phonology

ALLEN, Jeff. 1994. Has the adoption of words from English led to a new phoneme in Kwéyòl? Paper presented at the Workshop on Developmental Issues in Creole Languages and Linguistics held at the University of Westminster (Britain), 30 April 1994. (Comment 10Feb2010: I have dug up the original paper and need to do some inter-MS Word version conversions since MS Office 2007 can’t do it from that far back –likely MS Word v2 at that time. Also need to install phonetic font drivers on both conversion version and output to PDF)

ALLEN, Jeff. 1994. Influence of English varieties on St. Lucian French Creole. Seminar presented at the Sociolinguistics club of Indiana University, 24 October 1994.

ALLEN, Jeff. 1994. L'influence adstratale des variétés anglaises sur le kwéyòl sainte-lucien. Paper presented at the Colloque Morphologie et Syntaxe des Langues Créoles held at the Université de Provence (France), 23-25 June 1994. (Comment 10Feb2010: I can likely find the original paper. But need to do some inter-MS Word version conversions since MS Office 2007 can’t do it from that far back –likely MS Word v2 at that time. Also need to install phonetic font drivers on both conversion version and output to PDF. However the same content is available in my 1994 thesis)

ALLEN, Jeff. 1994. Sainte-Lucie: Relexification, décréolisation, recréolisation ou adlexification? Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies Thesis. Département des Sciences du Langage & Centre de Recherches Linguistiques et Sémiologiques, Université Lyon 2. 183 pp. https://www.box.net/shared/m863udzlby

ALLEN, Jeff & Christopher HOGAN. 1998. Evaluating Haitian Creole Orthographies from a non-literacy-based Perspective. Presented at the Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (SPCL) at the Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), New York City, New York, January 1998. https://www.box.net/shared/ymima9gkyn (this is the actual link to presentation handout)

http://www.lsadc.org/info/pdf_files/1998meet.pdf http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/chogan/Web/Publications.html

ALLEN, Jeff & Christopher HOGAN. 1999. Le 'r' et le 'w' en créole haïtien: 1, 2 ou 3 phonemes? Presented at 9è Colloque du Comite International des Etudes Créoles, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France, 24 - 29 June 1999. https://www.box.net/shared/35yqhtic3r

HOGAN, Christopher & Jeff ALLEN. 1999. Phonemic and Orthographic realizations of 'r' and 'w' in Haitian Creole. Presented at International Conference of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 99), San Francisco, 1-7 August1999. https://www.box.net/shared/bf21htuj1s

ESKENAZI, Maxine, Christopher HOGAN, Jeff ALLEN, & Robert FREDERKING. 1997. Issues in database creation : recording new populations, faster and better labelling. In les actes de Eurospeech97. Vol. 4: 1699-1702. Conference held in Rhodes, Greece, 22-25 September 1997.

ESKENAZI, Maxine, Christopher HOGAN, Jeff ALLEN, & Robert FREDERKING. 1998. Issues in database design: recording and processing speech from new populations. In Proceedings of First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC98), 28-30 May 1998, Granada, Spain. Vol. 2, pp. 1289-1293. https://www.box.net/shared/io5hqrhljg

LENZO, Kevin, Christopher HOGAN, & Jeff ALLEN. 1998. Rapid-Deployment Text-to-Speech in the DIPLOMAT System. In Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP98). 30 November - 4 December 1998, Sydney, Australia. https://www.box.net/shared/n2bxmmeubr &

http://www.shlrc.mq.edu.au/proceedings/icslp98/PDF/AUTHOR/SL980868.PDF

MASON, Marilyn & Jeff ALLEN. 2000. Issues from corpus analysis that have influenced the on-going development of various Haitian Creole text- and speech-based NLP systems and applications. In Proceedings of Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2000), 31 May - 2 June 2000, Athens, Greece.

Natural Language Processing (general) and Creole languages

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1997. Le créole hadïtien au XXIe siècle : nouveaux avancements en technologies informatisées. Talk presented at the 'Des Créoles de la Caraïbe' International Workshop, Duke University, 10-15 September 1997.

ALLEN, Jeff. 1998. Intelligence artificielle: apport de la traduction automatique et le traitement automatique de la parole au créole haïtien. (first 10 min of seminar in Haitian Creole, the rest in French). Seminar presented at the Université des Caraïbes, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 26 March 1998. (Comment 10Feb2010: Transcription of subtitles/captions in Haitian Creole and French in progress, to be finished ASAP. Already people ready to translate captions into English and many other language. Please contact me to volunteer to translate captions into any language possible)

Jeff Allen - Part 1 of seminar on Haitian Creole Language Technologies - Haiti 1998 (1 hour 6 min video; first 10 min is in Haitian Creole; the rest in French)

http://dotsub.com/view/3ac3c04f-d292-44b1-a180-7ab538304bb9

and also:

Downloadable Video file (420Mb in .avi format)

http://dl.free.fr/o7tjFE5jM

Jeff Allen - Part 2 of seminar on Haitian Creole Language Technologies - Haiti 1998 (22 min video in French)

http://dotsub.com/view/9cdd4c2b-ecf1-4df3-b6c1-2836777ea320

and also:

Downloadable Video file (130 Mb in .avi format)

http://dl.free.fr/g2HT44hOL

ALLEN, Jeff & Jocelyne TROUILLOT-LEVY. 1998. Televised interview on TeleHaiti on the status of computerized language systems for Creole and standardization of Haitian Creole. Interview aired 6pm, March 27, 1998 and 6am March 28, 1998, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-7AfKZNTS0

ALLEN, Jeff. 1998. Lexical variation in Haitian Creole and orthographic issues for Machine Translation (MT) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) applications. In les actes du First Workshop on Embedded Machine Translation systems, Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) conference, Philadelphia, 28 October 1998. https://www.box.net/shared/zktv8961y4

ALLEN, Jeff. 1999. La standardisation du créole haïtien par l'intermédiaire de la linguistique computationnelle. Presented at 9è Colloque du Comite International des Etudes Créoles, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France, 24 - 29 June 1999. (Comment 10Feb2010: I’ve found the paper and will make it available at link with next update of this list this week)

ALLEN, Jeff. 2004. Issues in Multilingual Speech Technologies: The differences between written and spoken language must be taken into account when developing a speech system. In Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine, Number 63, Vol 15, Issue 3, April/May 2004.

http://www.multilingual.com/articleDetail.php?id=677

MASON, Marilyn and Jeff ALLEN. 2000. Human Language Technology issues for Haitian Creole - a Minority Language. In ELSNEWS 10,1. http://www.elsnet.org/publications/elsnews/10.1.pdf

MASON, Marilyn & Jeff ALLEN. 2000. Issues from corpus analysis that have influenced the on-going development of various Haitian Creole text- and speech-based Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems and applications. Paper and demo presented at the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2000), 31 May - 2 June 2000, Athens, Greece.

MASON, Marilyn & Jeff ALLEN. 2000. One small step for language technologies, one big step for implementing Creole language technologies into real-user environments. Paper presented at the 5th International Creole Language Workshop "How the past can improve the future: Creole languages in the new millennium" held at Florida International University, Miami, Florida, March 30-April 1, 2000.

MASON, Marilyn & Jeff ALLEN. 2000. Prototype for Orthography Conversion Software and Workflow Solutions for Haitian Creole - a Minority Language. Demonstration with written presentation in the Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Controlled Language Applications (CLAW2000), 29-30 April 2000, Seattle, Washington.

MASON, Marilyn & Jeff ALLEN. 2000. Recent Natural Language Processing advances for Haitian Creole: a low-density / sparse-data / minority language. Demo presented at the Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP) and North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) conference, 3 May 2000, Seattle, Washington.

MASON, Marilyn & Jeff ALLEN. 2001. Standardized Spelling as a Localization Issue. In Multilingual Computing and Technology. Number 41, Vol. 12, Issue 5. July/August 2001. Pp. 37-40. http://www.multilingual.com/articleDetail.php?id=589

MASON, Marilyn & Jeff ALLEN. 2001. Closing the Digital Divide: Issues in expanding localization efforts to minority languages. In LISA Newsletter, Volume X, No. 2, April 2001 (pp. 23-24, 32). http://www.lisa.org/globalizationinsider/2001/04/closing_the_dig.html

MASON, Marilyn & Jeff ALLEN. 2001. Is there a Universal Creole for localization efforts? In LISA Newsletter, Volume X, No. 3, August 2001 (pp. 39-42). http://www.lisa.org/globalizationinsider/2001/07/is_there_a_univ.html

MASON, Marilyn & Jeff ALLEN. 2002. Intra-textual Inconsistency: Risks of Implementing Orthographies for Less-Prevalent Languages. In Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) Newsletter: Globalization Insider, Volume XI, No. 1.3, 15 February, 2002, pp 1-5. http://www.lisa.org/globalizationinsider/2002/02/intratextual_in.html

MASON, Marilyn & Jeff ALLEN. 2003. Computing in Creole Languages. In Multilingual Computing and Technology. Number 53, Vol. 14, Issue 1. January/February 2003. Pp. 24-32. http://www.multilingual.com/articleDetail.php?id=625

Reviews

ALLEN, Jeff. 1994. Review of Dictionary of St. Lucian Creole, by Jones Mondesir (compiler) and Lawrence Carrington (ed). 1992. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. In Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 9.1: 175-181. http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=JPCL%209%3A1

ALLEN, Jeff. 1996. Review of Dictionnaire élémentaire français-créole by Pierre Pinalie. 1994. Paris: L'Harmattan & PUC. In Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 11.1: 156-158. http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=JPCL%2011%3A1

ALLEN, Jeff. 1998. Review of Language reclamation: French creole teaching in the Caribbean and the UK, by Hubisi Nwenmely. 1996. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 13.2: 409-415. http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=JPCL%2013%3A2

http://www.ilx.nl/blonline/blonlinesearch3.php?S99=Allen,%20Jeffrey

ALLEN, Jeff. 1999. Review of Caribbean language issues: old and new, edited by Pauline Christie. 1996. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 14.1: 148-153. http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=JPCL%2014%3A1

http://www.ilx.nl/blonline/blonlinesearch3.php?S99=Allen,%20Jeffrey

ALLEN, Jeff. 2000-2001. Review of the English Haitian-Creole Science Dictionary by Vilsaint, Fequiere and Maude Heurtelou, 1995. Coconut Creek, Florida: Educa Vision. In Carrier Pidgin, Volume 27 (1-3).

http://www.fiu.edu/~linguist/Vol26-28.htm

ALLEN, Jeff and Jean-Cléophat GERMAIN. Review of Learner's Dictionary of Haitian Creole by Valdman, Albert (in collaboration with Charles Pooser and Rozevel Jean-Baptiste). 1996. Bloomington: Indiana University Creole Institute. Was to appear in issue of the Carrier Pidgin.

Allen, Jeffrey. 1996. Review of Langues et sociétés en contact. Pierre Martel et Jacques Maurais (éds.) (Canadiana Romanica 8.). In Journal of French Language Studies, Volume 6 , Issue 01 , Mar 1996 , pp 125-127

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=JFL&volumeId=6&issueId=01

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=5180364&fulltextType=BR&fileId=S0959269500005196

Allen, Jeffrey. 2001. Review of Anglicisms Neologisms and Dynamic French. By Picone Michael D. 1996. (Lingvisticae Investigationes: Supplementa Vol. 18.). In Journal of French Language Studies , Volume 11 , Issue 02 , Sep 2001 , pp 259-300

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=JFL&volumeId=11&issueId=02

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=84965&fulltextType=BR&fileId=S0959269501420266