Word Reference

A Grammar-Deprivation Experiment• Some communication systems, such aspidgins, have little in the way of grammar.• Pidgins are choppy strings of words borrowedfrom overheard language.– For example, the Atlantic slave trade andindentured servitude in the South Pacificwas supported in part by mixing laborersfrom different languages.– To carry out practical matters, the speakerof the different languages had to developa make-shift jargon drawn from thespeech of their masters.