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UG and acquisition in pidginization and creolization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Michel DeGraff
Affiliation:
Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307. degraff@mit.edu

Abstract

I examine the target articles hypothesis in light of pidginization and creolization (P/C) phenomena. L1-to-L2 transfer has been argued to be the “central process” in P/C via relexification. This seems incompatible with the view that UC sans Li plays the central role in L2A. I sketch a proposal that reconciles the hypothesis in the target article with, inter alia, the effects of transfer in P/C.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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