Topic 3: Pidgins and Creoles

What is pidgin or the process of pidginization and what is creole or the process of creolization?

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ONLINE READING: Read the posted article by David Crystal[Crystal, D. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, pages 334-339.]

ASSIGNMENT 1: Creole and Pidgin languages

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