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Re: Re: Re: Chomsky's linguistics IIRC the origin of creole is indeed a mix of European languages and native languages (but I can imagine other combinations as well). Often natives were displaced by former colony powers to work on plantations far away from their orginal home and put together...

This reminds me of an article in Scientific American(?) studying the evolution of pidgin and creole languages. Linguists have found that grammar is very similar although these languages devolped in different parts of the world. Interestingly children when learning their native language make...

Interestingly there was a recent publication in Nature Neuroscience (didn't read it myself, got the reference from the ORF web page http://science.orf.at/, sorry German only) where researchers found a region in the brain supporting Chomsky's theory. Students have been taught Italian and...