LIN 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Language Acquisition Device, Grammaticalization, Inflection
8 Apr 2016
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Contact may lead to the emergence of a reduced or restricted language variety called a pidgin. If a pidgin comes to be used in an increasing range of social contexts it may expand structurally & evolve into a creole. Most pidgins & creoles today are spoken in third world countries. They are oten viewed by outsides as marginal languages and atach a sigma to these languages. But they ofer a valuable window to language change & also on 1st & 2nd language acquisiion. Pidgins & creoles are usually not standardized or codiied in grammar books. A pidgin arises in a contact situaion involving two (or more) linguisic groups and is spoken as a second (3rd or 4th) language. A pidgin is no one"s irst language and is used for limited communicaive purposes among a populaion of speakers who have no single language in common.
