Creole Languages and Language Acquisition

✍ Scribed by Herman Wekker (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Leaves: 212
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; 86
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Introduction: Creole languages and language acquisition
Part I: Creolization as first-language acquisition
Small steps or large leaps? Undergeneralization and overgeneralization in creole acquisition
Creoles and the bankruptcy of current acquisition theory
Comment on Bickerton’s paper
Ambient language and learner output in a creole environment
Creole languages and parameter setting: A case study using Haitian Creole and the pro-drop parameter
Part II: Creolization as second-language acquisition
Does creologeny really recapitulate ontogeny?
The making of a language from a lexical point of view
Creolization and the acquisition of English as a second language
Part III: Creolization as relexification
The functional category “agreement” and creole genesis
On the acquisition of nominal structures in the genesis of Haitian Creole

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