The MULTI Project: Resources for Enhancing Multifaceted Creole Language Expertise in the Linguistics Classroom

danielle burgess recently completed her Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Michigan, experimentally investigating mechanisms that may play a role in language change across various linguistic contexts, including those that give rise to pidgins and Creoles. Her research uses artificial language learning to explore how biases in learning and communication could shape the linear ordering of standard negation and the extent to which such biases are universal or based on previous linguistic experience. Email: [email protected].

joy p. g. peltier is an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina. She is a Black scholar of African American and Caribbean descent whose interests center on high-contact and minoritized language varieties. Peltier’s research program includes work on pragmatic markers and noun phrases in Kwéyòl Donmnik, attitudes towards Creole languages among Creole users and linguists, the equitable inclusion of Creoles in linguistics pedagogy, and the experiences of Black faculty in the language sciences. Email: [email protected].

sophia eakins, a Ph.D. candidate in linguistics at the University of Michigan, specializes in language contact with a particular focus on Creole languages. Her research on the Cabo Verdean Creole–English bilingual community takes a bottom-up approach to describing and discovering the language practices of the Cabo Verdean diaspora. Topics she is interested in include bilingualism, sociolinguistics, and sound change. Email: [email protected].

wilkinson daniel wong gonzales is an assistant professor of applied English linguistics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include World Englishes, sociolinguistics, language variation and change, language contact, and language documentation in multilingual contexts. He is particularly interested in sociolinguistics in the Philippines and in wider East Asia. He employs corpus-based, experimental, ethnographic, and computational techniques on diverse datasets, including natural speech data and social media data. Email: [email protected].

alicia stevers is a lecturer in linguistics at San Diego State University and a University of Michigan linguistics Ph.D. alumna. Her research focuses on pragmatics and discourse analysis of determiner structures, cross-linguistic analysis, and experimental pragmatics. Many of her current questions relate linguistics to theology and how theories of pragmatics relate to interpretation of sacred texts cross-linguistically. She loves teaching, playing with her two little boys, dog, and pet snakes, sewing, baking, and enjoying her city. Email: [email protected].

ariana bancu is a qualitative researcher and former assistant professor at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, where she taught classes with a focus on sociocultural linguistics and psycholinguistics. She specializes in language contact, endangered languages, and multilingualism. She has dedicated several years to studying and documenting Transylvanian Saxon, an endangered, nonstandardized Germanic language used in Romania and Germany. She extends her expertise to studying Creole languages from a community-based perspective. Email: [email protected].

felicia bisnath is a hearing woman of Indian descent who grew up in Trinidad and Tobago and who has been living in the United States since 2019. She uses Trinidadian English and Trinidadian Creole as first languages. Language contact, minoritized languages (specifically Creoles and sign languages), and the role of ideology in the construction of linguistic form and in the treatment of minoritized languages in linguistics are recurring foci in her work. Email: [email protected].

moira saltzman is an assistant professor of linguistics/TESL at California State University Northridge. She specializes in phonetic and phonological aspects of language contact and change and the interplay of social forces and language use, such as power dynamics in situations of language contact. Her Ph.D. research focused on the historical development of Jejueo, the indigenous language of Jeju Island, South Korea. Her ongoing research includes the development of a talking dictionary of Jejueo, a free online multimedia database of the language. Email: [email protected].

marlyse baptista is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania specialized in morphosyntax and language contact. She is a strong proponent of an antideficit, antiexceptionalist perspective on Creoles and advocates for foregrounding them as the complex natural languages that they are (like any language) while acknowledging the colonial linguistic subordination they have been subjected to (like many languages). She uses descriptive, theoretical, experimental, and corpus methods in investigating the morphosyntax of Creoles and theories of Creole genesis. Email: [email protected].