**** Creoles--new vs mature

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After the first creole generation (acknowledging the ambiguities of perspective inherent in any concept of generation), creole languages are indistinguishable from other languages and subject to the same types of language change as any other language. This is often overlooked in tests of Bickerton's model, and critics often use creole languages which have been native languages for centuries as as their foils to the bioprogram. ({<[LINK]> perhaps including his own?--check _Roots of Language_})--Luchesi, Mufwene, others....

-- for the ambiguities and possibilities inherent within the

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