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Ferguson's most important contribution to sociolinguistically-grounded pidgin and creole studies has been his construct of "foreigner talk" as a means of inventing and transmitting pidgins. In his estimation, "when a pidgin reaches an accepted degree of autonomy, stability, and fullness it no longer meets the criteria of a pidgin in the restricted sense we are using." This informal invocation of formal criteria has been employed by many scholars to either extablish the instability of pidgins or the sociolinguistic natire of creolization.

SIMPLIFIED REGISTERS BROKEN LANGUAGE PIDGINIZATION

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Foreigner talk The target A combination of

--used by the speaker language as of simplified

of the target language spoken by a register and

to talk to a foreigner foreigner broken language

of an extremely

Baby talk widespread and

--used by the speaker rapid occurence

of the target language

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Charles A. Ferguson, Charles E. DeBose (1977) "Simplified Registers, Broken Language and Pidginization" in Highfield and Valdman, eds. 99-125.

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