Vowels Vowels should be noted for tongue height, tongue position, muscle tension, and nasality. Though this language has been in use on the island for hundreds of years, it has been, until recently, an oral language. Apostrophe Certain common contractions are found in Kw y l speech. These can be reflected in the writing system using an apostrophe. Lexicon Much of the lexicon of St. Lucian Creole comes from French.
Some examples follow.
The Kw y l pronouns tend to come from the French stressed pronoun form. While a strict physiological orientation towards a single grammatical structure seems, at best, overly simplistic, this paper will not make the attempt to either confirm or deny this hypothesis, as only one language is being examined. It will, however, analyze St. Lucian French Creole in terms of Bickerton's tense, aspect, and modality particles which precede the verb in marked conditions. Bickerton has shown a striking similarity in many Creole languages in the verb forms, many using preposed particles. That is, the unmarked condition is the time initially being talked about, while the marked is any time prior to the original time in focus.