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On one hand, if in aggregate number, bound workers only slowly (or not at all) approached the population of the ruling class, then both native and non-native acquisition might proceed in a fashion more stable than that in situations of rapid demographic shift. {<[LINK]> implications for African North American dialectal acquisition and creolization hypotheses}. This was in fact the finding of Baker and Corne for the island of Reunion, where a true creole had very little opportunity to develop. The resulting variety "blurs" into a cross between an expanded and nativized pidgin and simply a set of dialect features.

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Philip Baker and Chris Corne (1986), "Universals, Substrata and the Indian Ocean Creoles," in Muysken and Smith, _Substrata vs Universals_; 165-167.