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Traditionally, researchers in the field of pidgin and creole languages have expounded the simplification theory, one which views a pidgin development as being a simplified version of the colonizer’s language. Research by Coelho (1880), Robert Hall (1966), Naro (1971 and elsewhere), and Bickerton (1977), for instance, cite the lack of number and gender marking, and a noninflected verbal system, among other examples, as evidence supporting the simplification hypothesis. The absence of these “marked features” is often used as a kind of yardstick to substantiate the notion that pidgin is a reduced, “hybridized and unstable linguistic system.”
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Macedo, D.P., D’Introno, F. (1988). Pidginization as Language Acquisition. In: Flynn, S., O’Neil, W. (eds) Linguistic Theory in Second Language Acquisition. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2733-9_18
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