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West African Pidgin: World language against the grain

March 2026

West African Pidgin: World language against the grain

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The Expansion of West African Pidgin: Social and Linguistic Factors

West African Pidgin (Pidgin) is a group of related, mutually intelligible varieties that emerged from contact between English and African languages in coastal West Africa.

Kofi Yakpo Kofi Yakpo

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Language contact outcomes as the result of bilingual optimization strategies

Pieter Muysken. 2013. Language contact outcomes as the result of bilingual optimization strategies. Bilingualism – Language and Cognition, 1...

Pieter Muysken Pieter Muysken

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The Evolution of Sentenial Structure

Peter Gärdenfors. 2014. The Evolution of Sentenial Structure. Humana.Mente Journal of Philosophical Studies, 27, 79-97

Peter Gärdenfors Peter Gärdenfors

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An evolutionary cybernetics perspective on language and coordination

Joachim De Beule and Kevin Stadler. 2014. An evolutionary cybernetics perspective on language and coordination. New Ideas in Psychology, 32,...

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