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Siegel, Jeff – Educational Perspectives, 2008
Like plate lunches, aloha shirts, and lei, Pidgin is an important part of local identity in Hawai'i. While some people still think of Pidgin as "broken English," many now realize that it is a distinct creole language, similar to others that have developed in multilingual environments, and call it Hawai'i Creole or HCE (Hawai'i Creole…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Language Acquisition, Pidgins, Dialects