Sharynne McLeod is Distinguished Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. This blog records the work of her team to support multilingual children's speech acquisition throughout the world. The associated Multilingual Children's Speech website contains resources for over 100 languages: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech
November 25, 2009
Cajun French and Cajun English: Louisiana USA
Sharynne bravely holding an alligator during the Cajun Encounters swamp tour
Captain Mike of Cajun Encounters, a speaker of Cajun English, described the origins of Cajun French while on a swamp tour in November, 2009. He gave permission for this video to be uploaded to this website.