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This clears up a lot. The whole article felt dubious from the start since it was lacking any examples of the language or an explanation of how functional the la
by pmr_ 12y ago
This clears up a lot. The whole article felt dubious from the start since it was lacking any examples of the language or an explanation of how functional the language is. The paper makes it clear: the language is young and regularities already emerge and it is interesting because the phenomena has not been studied "live" yet.
- XaspR8d 12y agoIt parallels the emergence of verbal pidgins -> creoles very well. "Recently born" languages frequently lack the grammatical structure that "mature" languages do. Sometimes levels of phonotactic structure are absent as well.