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LING-115 UNIT 6: Pidgins and CreolesWhat is a Pidgin language? - correct answer ✔When people engaged in a
conversation speaking two different languages, make up a language so they
can communicate
When does a Pidgin language become a Creole language? - correct answer
✔When these languages increase in sophistication until they can be used in
all necessary environments that standard languages are also used it AND
acquire native speakers
Do Creole languages have the same, or less amount of linguistic complexity
as regular languages? - correct answer ✔They have the SAME linguistic
complexity - and the same design properties as older languages
What is Pidginization? - correct answer ✔suggests that the creation of
Pidgins is similar to child language acquisition
What are the basic properties of Pidgin languages? - correct answer ✔- It
has no native speakers and is a contact language (slaves working in the south
and Caribbean in 19th century)`
Examples of Pidgin languages? - correct answer ✔- Hawaiian Pidgin English
- established on pineapple plantains between Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese
and Phillipino
- Chinook Jargon - contact languages between North American Indian tribes
What is Horizontal Interaction? - correct answer ✔Contact between groups
with equal power - much more common than vertical interaction
, What is Vertical Interaction? - correct answer ✔When speakers of a
subordinate group communicate with those of a dominant group
What is Referential Information? - correct answer ✔Pidgins communicate
trading/simple work-oriented tasks
What is Affective Use? - correct answer ✔Purely social -
establish/maintain/strengthen relationships
What are the attitudes towards Pidgins/Creoles? - correct answer ✔- people
think they're imperfect, reduced forms of regular languages, but this is
dangerous because Pidgins and Creoles have their own special rules of
grammar
Why do people have negative attitudes towards Pidgins/Creoles? - correct
answer ✔- Pidgins are not standardized in grammars/dictionaries
- They lack historicity
- They are perceived as lacking autonomy, not seen as distinct languages but
just reduced forms
What is the Pidgin to Creole cycle like? - correct answer ✔Creoles are
Pidgins which have become the first language of a generation of speakers -
this expansion occurs in vocabulary/grammatical complexity
What is Tok Pisin? - correct answer ✔Some speakers in New Guinea learn
Tok Pisin as a mother tongue language, while others of the same variety do
not
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