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Download full textGoodfellow, Anne; Alfred, Pauline – 2002
This paper discusses the relationship between pidgins and creoles and indigenous language maintenance, explaining that the development of pidgin and creole languages always occurs in the context of language contact, often between a European colonial language and one or more indigenous languages. Pidgins are languages that are primarily used as a…
Descriptors: Creoles, Grammar, Language Maintenance, Phonology
