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Download full textLe Page, R. B. – 1974
This paper is intended as an outline synthesis of what is presently known about the processes of pidginization and creolization. Section 1 deals with the linguistic processes of pidginization under the following headings: (1) the learned expectancies of how to behave in a contact situation, (2) necessity and heightened attention, (3) redundancy,…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Creoles, Dialect Studies, Language Patterns
