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Peer reviewedScotton, Carol Myers; Okeju, John – Language, 1973
Research supported by the Ford Foundation and the American Association of University Women. (DD)
Descriptors: African Languages, Cultural Influences, Dialect Studies, Idioms
Peer reviewedMcWhorter, John H. – Language, 1998
Outlines three features that render creoles synchronically distinguishable from other languages, all three clear results of a break in transmission followed by a development period too brief for the traits to be undone as they have been in older languages. Shows that an expanded data set reveals flaws in the socio-historical argumentation behind…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Classification
Peer reviewedHuttar, George L. – Language, 1975
Presents evidence for the idea that when morphemes are borrowed from a socially dominant language into a pidgin, and extended in usage as in a creole, the major factor determining the direction of such extension is the linguistic background of the speakers of languages other than the dominant one. (Author/CLK)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Creoles, Language Patterns, Language Universals
