FIU LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIA FALL 2004

" Gullah Representations In Literature: DuBose Heyward’s Porgy"  Char Eberly, English / FIU. Tuesday, September 21,2004

DuBose Heyward’s Porgy (1925) is a classic text associated with Southern Literature.  By conducting both a critical linguistic and a literary analysis of the work, it is possible to establish its direct connections to the Gullah language and culture in turn-of-the-century Charleston.  Specifically, Heyward’s representation of the Gullah language, rhetorical patterns, culture, beliefs, and practices, was studied and the results clearly link Porgy to a Gullah literary tradition. Heyward’s early manuscripts, manuscript fragments, revisions, research notes, and other personal papers from his estate, show his knowledge of the Gullah language and his personal experience with the people.  Breaking the mold of the “old South” minstrel-style depictions of black life and speech, Heyward used a literary representation of the Gullah language to portray the Gullah people with integrity and respect.

"The Development of Consonant Clusters in Bilingual Children" Mayli Someillan, Linguistics/ FIU Thursday, October 21, 2004.

The need for normative data on the phonological development of bilingual children is very important to individuals working in the fields of speech-language pathology, bilingual education, foreign language teaching, and early reading. The study presented focuses on Spanish-English bilingual children's acquisition of double onset clusters whose first member is /s/ and analyzes the observed modification patterns.
 

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