FREC47H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Creole Language, Post-Creole Continuum, Decreolization
Document Summary
Pidgin = reduced language, limited capabilities, no native speakers, used for specific purposes, can become a creole language. Creolization = the process of a pidgin becoming a creole over a period of time, usually generations (nativization) Decreolization = the process by which a creole becomes standardized. Substrate = languages that provide the grammatical base for the creole languages. A measure of where the creole sits in relation to the substrate and superstrate languages, closer to superstrate or substrate. Basilect = languages closest to the substrate languages. Acrolect = languages closest to the superstrate language. Mesolect = languages towards the center of the continuum. Creole : has a unique process of becoming a language, development is unique. Creoloid : languages that fall between creole development and interlanguages, similar to creoles but different. Interlanguages : code mixing, reason of mixing of languages differs, can be as a result of immigration.
