**** Pidgins -- nativization (creolization) of

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A pidgin will creolize if natural increase in the substrate population surpasses immigration as a source for new speakers and if the substrate population is greater than the superstrater population (This is a continuous ratrher than a discrete function--a conjuncture rather than an event, as Bickerton would have it. It is also borne out by evidence of creolization in North America. The most creolized (in the sense of the Atlantic creoles) speech community is the Sea Islands area of Georgia and South Carolina, the only North American _region_ with a clear African majority at any point in its early development.

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