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Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Vol. 33:2 (2018) ► pp.411–432
Guest column

Speech communities, language varieties, and typology

What does acquisition have to do with it?

| Indiana University
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Developmental stages and language acquisition
  • 3.Verb form selection in pidgins, creoles, and immigrant varieties
    • Frequency
    • Detectability
  • 4.Copula selection in pidgins, creoles, and immigrant varieties
  • 5.Tense-mood-aspect (TMA) marker selection in pidgins, creoles, and immigrant varieties
  • 6.Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 19 October 2018
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