Quote: children speak a creole faster than adults speak the corresponding pidgin; leads to phonological reduction of function words

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Speed of delivery seems to be one of … and do speak their native language faster than … comes phonological reduction, especially of function (as opposed … [e.g.,] /disla/ from /dispela/ [for] 'this'   Google-1   Google-2

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