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| | Creoles and Creolization |
 | | Since then, creoles have been defined inaccurately as ìnativized pidgins,î i.e., pidgins that have acquired native speakers and have therefor expanded both their structures and functions and have stabilized. |
| | On the other hand, variation in the structural features of creoles (lexified by the same language) is correlated with variation in the linguistic and sociohistori‚cal ecologies of their developments (Mufwene 1997, 2001). |
| | The very fact of resorting to a handful of prototypes for the general creole structural category suggests that the vast majority of them do not share the putative set of defining features, hence that the features cannot be used to single them out as a unique type of language. |
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