Nativization

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Nativization (spelled nativisation in the United Kingdom) refers to the process wherby a language acquires native speakers.[1] This happens necessarily where a second language used by adult parents becomes the native language of their children. Nativization has been of particular interest to linguists, and to creolists more specifically, where the second language concerned is a pidgin.

Several explanations of creole genesis have relied on prior nativization of a pidgin as a stage in achieving creoleness. This is true for Hall's (1966) notion of the pidgin-creole life cycle as well as Bickerton's language bioprogram theory.

Examples of creole genesis that can be attributed undisputedly to the children-nativizing factor are few.[citation needed] The Tok Pisin language reported by Sankoff & Laberge (1972) is one such language.[citation needed] Pfaff (1981) points to children of Gastarbeiter pidgin German speaking parents acquiring seamlessly German as a native language as a case of nativization without creolization.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Sankoff & Laberge (1972:?)

[edit] Bibliography

  • Sankoff, Gillian & Suzanne Laberge (1972), "On the acquisition of native speakers by a language", Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, 73-84
  • Pfaff, Carol W. (1981), "Incipient Creolization in Gastarbeiterdeutsch: An experimental sociolinguistic study.", Studies in Second Language Acquisition 3 (2): 165-178

[edit] Further reading

  • Hall, Robert A. (1966), written at Ithaca, Pidgin and creole languages, Cornell University
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