Psychology 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Saccade, Operational Definition, Implicit Memory
15 Apr 2016
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Rudimentary languages created by speakers of different languages. Usually occur as a result of slavery, trade. Not real languages in the usual sense: have small lexicon, few if any polysyllabic words, no productive morphology (suffixes, prefixes, fixed word order, short sentences, no function words (a, the, in, on) Bickerton (1980"s): many pidgin speakers in hawaii due to influence of. Studied pidgin speakers who learned it as an adult vs. their children who learned it from birth: children showed more complex language, had grammatical structure parents didn"t. Children seem to be going beyond the input available to them. Parent tutor is simpler than what children learned. Typical pidgin sentence: aena tu macha curen, samawl churen, haus mani ei, (and too much children, small children, house money pay) Typical creole sentence: im fi kom op ja (he out to come up here, we de a london (we are in london)
