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What does creolization mean?

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Noun
  1. (linguistics) the process of a pidgin rapidly expanding its vocabulary and grammatical rules, ultimately becoming a creole.
  2. (Trinidad and Tobago) of Indo-Trinidadians, the process of assimilation into the dominant Creole culture.
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The violence of their efforts warns against a sense that cultural creolization involves merely the intertwining of different cultural strands.
Since the early 1970s and with increasing numbers, women writers have added their voices to those of men, partly regauging the concepts of creolization and of Di-nos-e-ta.
If we take the idea that the world is in the process of creolization then we are not dealing with issues of hybridity but with issues of contact between culture.
The sign languages in use in the EU are more difficult to classify into language families than the spoken languages, because of language contact and creolization.
Some versions of the hypothesis actually propose multiple creolization events, with later ones reinforcing and broadening simplifications introduced by earlier ones.
There are two problems with this 'language bioprogram hypothesis,' as it is known in the creolization literature.

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