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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2009
      January 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511519826
      9780521593823
      9780521025386
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511519826
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.87kg, 480 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.705kg, 480 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Linguistic Anthropology, Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Anthropology, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (88)
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    Subjects:
    Linguistic Anthropology, Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Anthropology, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (88)
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    This study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis - relexification, reanalysis and direct levelling - processes which the author demonstrates play a significant role in language genesis and change in general. Dr Lefebvre argues that the creators of pidgins/creoles use the parametric values of their native languages in establishing those of the language that they are creating and the semantic principles of their own grammar in concatenating morphemes and words in the new language. This theory is documented on the basis of a uniquely detailed comparison of Haitian creole with its contributing French and West African languages. Summarizing more than twenty years of funded research, the author examines the input of adult, as opposed to child, speakers and resolves the problems in the three main approaches, universalist, superstratist and substratist, which have been central to the recent debate on creole development.

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    "...[this book] is a model of careful argumentation, including clear description of the methods and assumptions involved in the underlying research...the book is admittedly written for those with special interest in pidgin and creole languages..." Linguistics

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