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Direct linkGilmore, Perry – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2011
This study describes a rare Swahili pidgin created by two five-year-old boys, one American and one African. The discussion examines the linguistic and social factors affecting the "origins, maintenance, change and loss" (Hymes 1971) of their language and the place it created for their friendship. This place, constructed by and through language,…
Descriptors: African Languages, Pidgins, Foreign Countries, Males
Download full textGilmore, Perry – 1979
The study of the spontaneous generation of a pidgin by two children, five and six years old, to accommodate their communication needs when neither had fully acquired his native language, is described. The children were an African native of a Swahili-speaking family and an American child living in the African village. The new language created was a…
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Intercultural Communication, Language Acquisition
