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If in contrast, the period between event one and two was brief, then a different set of pressures would result. If locally born members of the substrate quickly outnumbered a substrate population that was already in the majority and had not acquired a widely usable variety of the superstrate variety, then the formation of a creole would ensue as a matter of necessity. Persons acquiring a native language under such circumstance would form creoles in the sense of Bickerton's interests. <[LINK]>

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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.