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Derek Bickerton

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British American linguist (1926-2018)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1926 to 2018 · aged 91
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Derek Bickerton was an English-born American linguist, novelist, and professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

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Derek Bickerton was an English-born American linguist, novelist, and professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Based on his work in creole languages in Guyana and Hawaii, he has proposed that the features of creole languages provide powerful insights into the development of language both by individuals and as a feature of the human species. He is the originator and main proponent of the language bioprogram hypothesis according to which the similarity of creoles is due to their being formed from a prior pidgin by children who all share a universal human innate grammar capacity.

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Lived 1926 to 2018 · aged 91
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