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McWhorter, John H. – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2003
Examines the interface between language change and Creole studies. Discusses the Language Bioprogram Hypothesis, the Creole continuum, Creoles and grammaticalization, theoretic syntax, creole prototypes, and second language acquisition and language change. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Creoles, Dialects, Grammar, Pidgins

Kaplan, Robert B. – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1994
Fundamental issues in language policy and planning are discussed: language death, language survival, language change, language revival, language shift and expansion, language contact and pidginization or creolization, and literacy development. (Contains 21 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries