These languages have the "world's simplest grammars" according to a linguist specializing in them, John McWhorter.
A linguist studying these languages ridiculed non-universalist theories of their structure as the "cafeteria principle." Absence of in界lectional a猴炤xation, lexical tone, and derivational non-compositionality are characteristics of these languages according to their "prototype hypothesis." These languages sometimes develop into a "continuum" visualized as a "ladder of lects" displaying the acrolect, mesolect, and basilect. Derek Bickerton's language bioprogram hypothesis provides a universalist theory of the origin of these languages that competes with the "substrate" and "superstrate" hypotheses. These languages have the "world's simplest grammars" according to a linguist specializing in them, John McWhorter. These languages are learned as 炤rst languages by children, unlike nonnative constructs such as Tok Pisin. For 10 points, name these natural languages formed from contact between two other languages, which are contrasted with pidgins.
A linguist studying these languages ridiculed non-universalist theories of their structure as the "cafeteria principle."
Creoles