A linguistic island experiment
Derek Bickerton is a linguist who had a wild idea for a linguistic experiment. He dreamed of placing six families that spoke six different languages on an uninhabited island for three years, in an attempt to create new Creole language. And he almost got the funding for it. The World’s Patrick Cox tells the story.
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