Group:
naming
Group:
relationship between brain and behavior
Group:
Thesa programming system
Topic:
dictionary for natural language
Topic:
language and life as a game
Topic:
meaning by use
Topic:
meaning of words
Topic:
programming with natural language
Topic:
vivid representation of programs
Topic:
words in natural languages
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Summary
A pidgin language is a simplified, cross cultural language that contains little or no morphology. Children raised in a pidgin speaking society will develop the pidgin into a creole language. Creoles have all of the properties of other natural languages. Mimetic sign language is a creole language.
Children first use words as sentences. This is a pidgin style of communication. (cbb 5/94)
Subtopic: pidgin language 
| Quote: pidgin languages are cross cultural; isolating with little or no morphology, grammar by word order [»newpEL_1982]
| | Quote: when two cultures speaking different languages must communicate, a pidgin language arises; may apply to human-computer interface [»slatBM7_1986]
| | Quote: a pidgin is a language without native speakers, but with a recognizable set of conventions over a long period. It is unintelligible to speakers of other languages [»sebbM_1997]
| | Quote: the phonology of pidgins is unstable and somewhat dependent on the speaker. [»sebbM_1997]
| | Quote: pidgins typically use a simplified vowel system without phonologically marked sounds; they avoid doubly articulated stops
| | Quote: pidgins are semantically transparent with one form for one meaning; e.g., two words to specify gender of all species [»sebbM_1997]
| | Quote: pidgins make maximum use of a minimum lexicon of 100 to several thousand words [»sebbM_1997]
| | Quote: pidgins use few synonyms; e.g., Tok Pisin uses one word for all pointy things and adjectives to identify specific forms [»sebbM_1997]
| | Quote: pidgin grammars lack surface and morphological complexity. Pidgins use semantic transparency, a limited vocabulary, and limited function words [»sebbM_1997]
| | Quote: a pidgin must be useful and learnable by adults who have lost the ability to learn a native language [»sebbM_1997]
| | Quote: for a pidgin to stabilize, it must develop its own norms of grammar, lexicon, and pronunciation [»sebbM_1997]
| | Quote: a stable pidgin uses phrase-like formulas for the description of new concepts, e.g., 'smoke eat thing' for 'pipe' [»sebbM_1997]
| | Quote: commerce corrupts the language through frequent contact with strangers; eventually becomes a mingled dialect, a jargon [»johnS_1755, OK]
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Subtopic: foreign talk
| Quote: untutored second language learners that fossilize at an earlier stage produce languages similar to pidgins [»sebbM_1997]
| | Quote: foreigner talk is a dialect that native speakers use to talk with foreigners; like a pidgin with simple grammar, limited vocabulary, and restricted use [»sebbM_1997]
| | Quote: foreigner talk by both sides may play a role in the early development of a pidgin
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Subtopic: creole language
| Quote: creole languages are created by children born to pidgin speakers; universally include internal morphology for words
| | Quote: creoles are pidgins which have become native languages for their speakers, typically as children; simple grammar [»sebbM_1997]
| | Quote: mimetic sign language learned by second-generation deaf; they regularize the handshapes and movements of the ASL lexicon into useful components [»newpEL_1982]
| | Quote: learning can produce a more highly structured language than the original; e.g., internal morphology of creole and mimetic ASL [»newpEL_1982]
| | Quote: children speak a creole faster than adults speak the corresponding pidgin; leads to phonological reduction of function words [»sebbM_1997]
| | Quote: a creole can develop abruptly before a pidgin is established; it may be influenced by biological language abilities [»sebbM_1997]
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Subtopic: lexicon and grammar
| Quote: the lexicon of a pidgin or creole usually comes from one language, the lexifier, while the grammar has other sources, e.g., the substrate languages [»sebbM_1997]
| | Quote: the grammar of a pidgin is simpler than the grammar of native languages
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Subtopic: language game
| Quote: children learn language by language games; complete systems of human communication [»wittL_1958]
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Subtopic: language as naming
| Quote: for young children, a word is a whole sentence [»vyotLS_1962]
| | Quote: Augustine was taught to speak by learning the names of things [»wittL_1958]
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Subtopic: communicating with computers
| Quote: Zuse envisaged a universal language for conversing with computers; Esperanto was too colloquial and Carnap's ideas were too mathematical; need something in between [»zuseK_1984]
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Subtopic: artificial language
| Quote: no one has succeeded in inventing an artificial language that lets you say as many things as English does, but is as good as English at doing it [»richEA_1985]
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Subtopic: mnemonic commands
| Quote: users will pick up mnemonic commands (pidgin-computer) if a natural-language front-end provides them; gives a short cut, easy to learn [»slatBM7_1986]
| | Quote: naming provides a pidgin language for design and a file system for data storage [»cbb_1990, OK]
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