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To answer questions about creole formation, in the late 1970s Bickerton proposed an experiment that involves marooning on an island six couples speaking six different languages, along with children too young to have acquired their parents’ languages.

In his book Roots of Language (1981), Bickerton speculates on a theory to answer three questions:

How did creole languages originate?
How do children acquire language?
How did the language faculty originate as a feature of the human species?
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To answer questions about creole formation, in the late 1970s Bickerton proposed an experiment that involves marooning on an island six couples speaking six different languages, along with children too young to have acquired their parents’ languages.

In his book Roots of Language (1981), Bickerton speculates on a theory to answer three questions:

How did creole languages originate?
How do children acquire language?
How did the language faculty originate as a feature of the human species?
In Jamaica “Creole” designates anyone of Jamaican parentage except East Indians, Chinese, and Maroons (back-country descendants of runaway slaves, who are considered “African”). In Trinidad and Guyana it excludes Amerindians and EastIndians; in Suriname it denotes the“civilized”coloured population, as apart from tribes of rebelslave descent called Bush Negroes. In the French Antilles “Creole” refers more to local-born whites than to colored or blackpersons; in French Guyana, by c...
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In Jamaica “Creole” designates anyone of Jamaican parentage except East Indians, Chinese, and Maroons (back-country descendants of runaway slaves, who are considered “African”). In Trinidad and Guyana it excludes Amerindians and EastIndians; in Suriname it denotes the“civilized”coloured population, as apart from tribes of rebelslave descent called Bush Negroes. In the French Antilles “Creole” refers more to local-born whites than to colored or blackpersons; in French Guyana, by c...