Thank you for reading. What I wrote was very much from a western, academic perspective, which as a linguist is what I'm trained in. But there definitely are other views and as I say many disagreements. I'd love to see evidence that every language passes through a pidgin phase, it's not an idea I've come across before so if there is some research you can point to I would love to read it ☺️

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Sarah FitzGerald
Sarah FitzGerald

Written by Sarah FitzGerald

I write funny things about parenting and well researched things about linguistics

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