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Decreolization logo #21000 Decreolization is a phenomenon whereby over time a creole language reconverges with one of the standard languages from which it originally derived. First proposed by Keith Whinnom at the 1968 Mona conference, the concept has come under fire in recent years from such linguists as Bickerton and Rickford since at its inception it sought to overturn l...
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decreolization

decreolization logo #21003(from the article `African American English`) ...American Southeast, or a descendant of 17th-century West African Pidgin English. The possibility that the structure of modern Ebonics is the ...
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