When1: 1981
When2: 1995
Who: Derek Bickerton [Bickerton, Derek]
What: linguist
Where: USA
works\ Roots of Language [1981]; Language and Species [1990]; Language and Human Behavior [1995]
Detail: Animal calls and signs are structural wholes and have no component parts. Hawaiian immigrants spoke pidgin, and their children spoke creole. Creoles all over world are mostly similar to each other, possibly indicating universal grammar, which has same default settings for creole and young children.
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