Abstract

Peggy Mohan hails from Trinidad, West Indies. Her father was from Trinidad, an Indian by ethnicity, while her mother was from Corner Brook, Newfoundland. She pursued her studies in linguistics at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad, and later at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her doctoral dissertation focused on Trinidad Bhojpuri, the language commonly spoken by most Trinidad Indians. The dissertation was based on her recordings of the speech of elderly Indian Trinidadians during the 1970s.