Human languages may be shaped not only by the (individual psychological) processes of
language acquisition, but also by population-level processes arising from repeated …

How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than any hunting-and-
gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of …

The new millenium has seen a revival of the idea that processes of second language
acquisition (SLA) are a crucial ingredient to creole genesis. Traditionally, the fields of SLA …

Deconstructing creole Deconstructing Creole edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Stephen
Matthews and Lisa Lim Typological Studies in Language John Benjamins Publishing …

Although the emergence of creoles presupposes naturalistic SLA, current SLA scholarship
does not shed much light on the development of creoles with regard to the population …

1 On deconstruction e term 'deconstruction'is notoriously difficult to grasp and has often
been defined in negative terms, ie in reference to what it is not, rather than what it is (eg …

The role of adult second language acquisition in the genesis of pidgin and creole languages
has been discussed since the late nineteenth century. Earlier debate centered around …

Braun Diss Word-Formation and Creolisation Page 1 References Aceto, Michael (1997):
Saramaccan Creole Origins: Portuguese-Derived Lexical Correspondences and the …

Pidgins and creoles are new varieties of language that emerge when people speaking
different languages come into contact with each other. The study of these 'contact …

Este trabalho fornece indicações de que o Município do Libolo, Província do Kwanza-Sul,
Angola, partilha particularidades sócio-identitárias e linguísticas com o Brasil, resultantes do …