It is also possible that a diasporic population will display "creolization" -- the incorporation of new cultural elements into the mix of its practices, values, and meanings. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
The point in question is in my essay on "creolization" in the Encyclopedia, which is limited to discussing the language and culture of the Gullah-speaking people of the South Carolina and Georgia coasts. From Wordnik.com. [Speaking Southern] Reference
Cultural creolization would seem to depend upon linguistic creolization. From Wordnik.com. [Speaking Southern] Reference
“Language acquisition and creolization”, Language Creation and Language Change. From Wordnik.com. [Innateness and Language] Reference
(1994: 39) Pinker views this as a case of “creolization by a single living child”. From Wordnik.com. [Innateness and Language] Reference
I would not for a moment insist on creolization as a viable theory of southern culture more generally. From Wordnik.com. [Speaking Southern] Reference
“Reduced input in the acquisition of signed languages: contributions to the study of creolization”. From Wordnik.com. [Innateness and Language] Reference
There are two problems with this ˜language bioprogram hypothesis,™ as it is known in the creolization literature. From Wordnik.com. [Innateness and Language] Reference
Pinker claims that ISN provides another example of creolization and the workings of the innate language faculty: it is. From Wordnik.com. [Innateness and Language] Reference
Middle English shows all the typical signs of creolization and so a number of oddities appear and internal logic disappears. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Hisself, My Son, and a Thought About Prescriptivism:] Reference
That is to say, whether it was a light contact or whether it was an "intensive" contact one shade removed from creolization. From Wordnik.com. [Semitic and IE in the Neolithic: How intensive was the language contact?] Reference
Beyond the South Carolina and Georgia lowcountry, I have not found creolization theory particularly applicable to southern culture. From Wordnik.com. [Speaking Southern] Reference
However, there is a case of creolization in which these other hypotheses apparently fail to gain purchase, as Pinker (1994: 37ff.) emphasizes. From Wordnik.com. [Innateness and Language] Reference
I am therefore pleased to learn in his letter that he "would not for a moment insist on creolization as a viable theory of southern culture more generally.". From Wordnik.com. [Speaking Southern] Reference
The apparent ending losses in "dep" and especially "kolabor" make me suspect creolization; though I suppose the latter could actually be etymologically co-labour rather than collaboration. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: PUZZLE.] Reference
Though in 1805, America may not yet have been completely deprived of its alterity, the process of creolization was well under way, and the white creole populations of Spanish America, with the help of. From Wordnik.com. [The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism] Reference
First, the Bickerton-Pinker view, which assigns a dominant role to child language learners in the creation of creoles, is but one of three competing hypotheses currently being explored in the creolization literature. From Wordnik.com. [Innateness and Language] Reference
For the communities of children growing up around Irish-medium schools in urban centres it may be right to speak of pidginization and creolization along with a lot of clever inter-language play like the recent cad-ever'. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: THE FUTURE OF IRISH.] Reference
According to the ˜superstratist™ hypothesis, creolization occurs not when children acquire language from pidgins, but when successive waves of adult speakers try to learn the language of the dominant culture as a second language. From Wordnik.com. [Innateness and Language] Reference
Moreover, they argue, since creole languages all tend to be elaborated in the same ways, and since they all respect the constraints of UG, the phenomenon of creolization also supports the idea that the inborn contribution to language acquisition is not just some general drive for an effective system of communication, but rather knowledge of linguistic universals. From Wordnik.com. [Innateness and Language] Reference
If you think about the natural evolution of, for example, a “pidgin” language which then undergoes a process of “creolization” as its role slowly changes from a “lingua franca” used by speakers of two communities to the main vehicle of communication amongst a community of speakers, then you may see that this flattening-out so to speak of cultural peculiarities follows naturally from the participation of speakers from different cultures in its development. From Wordnik.com. [“Who CARES what English people have for breakfast?” My contribution to the culture debate… « Ken Wilson's Blog] Reference
Glissant is especially concerned with the effects of colonization and creolization. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from The Sun] Reference
V As a bulwark against the creolization of the Japanese race, the government facilitated the segregation of prostitutes so that some would work only among foreigners. From Wordnik.com. [Shock of Gray] Reference
Longhair's rolling, "blues rumba"-flavored revision of Hank Williams's revision of Cajun music, backed by a Crescent City band of beboppers and funksters, I expected a post-gig lecture from Alan about taking creolization too far. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
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