| dc.creator | Keesing, Roger M | |
| dc.date | 2017-05-03 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-07-05T18:38:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-07-05T18:38:56Z | |
| dc.identifier | https://lenguasmodernas.uchile.cl/index.php/LM/article/view/45799 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/189452 | |
| dc.description | The development of Melanesian Pidgin English has interesting implications for second language acquisition. First, it has been hypothesized that the development of a pidgin in an interlingual situation parallels the pidgin stage in acquiring a second language. The Pacific case shows the dangers of assuming that superstrate (here, English) is the target language in such situations.
Second, the process whereby a developing pidgin is shaped by the grammar of the substrate but lexified mainly from the superstrate is illuminating. Where substrate languages are syntactically similar, grammaticalization can be short-cut: superstrate lexical elements are borrowed to fill substrate grammatical slots. The result of this short-cutting, where new labels are fitted into slots common to substrate languages, is a pidgin highly "effable" (Bickerton) to substrate speakers. Able to calque on their native languages using formulas of morpheme equivalence, they can acquire fluency and gramatical competence extremely easily and quickly. | en-US |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.language | spa | |
| dc.publisher | Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades | es-ES |
| dc.relation | https://lenguasmodernas.uchile.cl/index.php/LM/article/view/45799/47827 | |
| dc.source | Lenguas Modernas; Núm. 18 (1991); 93 - 105 | es-ES |
| dc.source | 0719-5443 | |
| dc.source | 0716-0542 | |
| dc.title | Melanesian pidgin and second language acquisition | en-US |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | |
