Creole Languages and Language Acquisition / / ed. by Herman Wekker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Aitchison, Jean,; Alleyne, Mervyn C.,; Bickerton, Derek,; Carrington, Lawrence D.,; DeGraff, Michel F.,; Koefoed, Geert,; Lefebvre, Claire,; Lumsden, John S.,; Roeper, Thomas,; Tarenskeen, Jacqueline,; Wekker, Herman,
• HerausgeberIn: Wekker, Herman,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 86
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (205 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

• I-IV
• Contents
• Introduction: Creole languages and language acquisition
• Part I Creolization as first-language acquisition
• Small steps or large leaps? Undergeneralization and overgeneralization in creole acquisition
• Creoles and the bankruptcy of current acquisition theory
• Comment on Bickerton's paper
• Ambient language and learner output in a creole environment
• Creole languages and parameter setting: A case study using Haitian Creole and the pro-drop parameter
• Part II Creolization as second-language acquisition
• Does creologeny really recapitulate ontogeny?
• The making of a language from a lexical point of view
• Creolization and the acquisition of English as a second language
• Part III Creolization as relexification
• The functional category "agreement" and creole genesis
• On the acquisition of nominal structures in the genesis of Haitian Creole