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    Derek Bickerton (March 25, 1926 – March 5, 2018) was an English-born linguist and professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Based on his work in...
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  • Bickerton (surname) Bickerton baronets, an extinct title in the Baronetage of Great Britain Derek Bickerton, linguist HMS Bickerton (K466), a British Captain-class...
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  • their superstrate and substrate languages. As articulated mostly by Derek Bickerton, creolization occurs when the linguistic exposure of children in a...
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    American linguist Robert Hall in the 1960s. Some linguists, such as Derek Bickerton, posit that creoles share more grammatical similarities with each other...
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  • son of Derek Bickerton Arthur Bickerton (1919–1992), Australian politician Derek Bickerton (1926–2018), U.S. linguist Francis Howard Bickerton (1889–1954)...
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  • Derek Bickerton (1926–2018), linguist and academic Derek Birley (1926–2002), academic and educator Derek Blake, academic and research scientist Derek Bok...
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    to search out new food sources found in the drier savannah ecology. Derek Bickerton (2009) has designated to this period the move from simple animal communication...
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  • pressure leading to language development in humans, as outlined by Derek Bickerton in Adam's Tongue. The pressure of such need is present in species with...
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  • respectively, of a post-creole speech continuum. In the early 1970s Derek Bickerton popularized these terms (as well as mesolect for intermediate points...
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  • and Billie Whitelaw. The screenplay by George Baxt was adapted from Derek Bickerton's 1959 novel of the same name. The film revolves around a group of criminals...
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  • discipline of syntax. One school of thought, founded in the works of Derek Bickerton, sees syntax as a branch of biology, since it conceives of syntax as...
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  • Payroll is a 1959 crime thriller novel by the British writer Derek Bickerton. Written while he was working in Barbados, it was the first of four novels...
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  • art movement Neo-Geo. Born in Barbados on May 26, 1959, Bickerton was the son of Derek Bickerton, a linguist and scholar of Creole and pidgin languages...
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  • the universality of language, Pinker—mainly relying on the work of Derek Bickerton—notes that children spontaneously invent a consistent grammatical speech...
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    other cognitive processes such as imitation and insight. Linguist Derek Bickerton, building on the work of biologist Bernd Heinrich, has argued that...
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  • Occupation. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-6811-9. Derek Bickerton. The Murders of Boysie Singh: Robber, Arsonist, Pirate, Mass-Murderer...
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  • Animal cognition Animal communication Animal language Biosemiotics Derek Bickerton – Animal Communication Systems researcher Human–animal communication...
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  • counterexample to Derek Bickerton's theories of creole language formation, showing "no more than a chance resemblance to Bickerton's universal creole features"...
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  • assume subject-initial ordering because it is the most common globally. Derek Bickerton proposes SVO (subject-verb-object) because this word order (like its...
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  • though even onomatopoeic sounds have a large degree of arbitrariness. Derek Bickerton has posited that iconic signs, both verbal and gestural, were crucial...
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    that both factors played a role in the formation of the languages. Derek Bickerton and some other linguists subscribe to a theory that attributes creole...
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  • "piece wood", in different contexts, but a later analysis by linguist Derek Bickerton speculated that she treated all of these as single words in her vocabulary...
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  • from an SOV language but are evolving into different kinds; and by Derek Bickerton (1981), who argues that the original language was SVO, which supports...
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    Ivan Sag, Edwin S. Williams Influenced   In academia John Backus, Derek Bickerton, Julian C. Boyd, Daniel Dennett, Daniel Everett, Jerry Fodor, Gilbert...
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    Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain (with Derek Bickerton) (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. ISBN 0-262-03273-2) A Brain for All...
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    central to several accounts of how language evolved. For instance, Derek Bickerton describes how our ancestors constructed scavenging niches that required...
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  • Moroccan historian. Trevor Baylis, 80, British inventor (windup radio). Derek Bickerton, 91, English-born American linguist and academic. John Hall Buchanan...
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    "Boysie Singh 20th Century Pirate of the Caribbean". 7 August 2005. Derek Bickerton. The Murders of Boysie Singh: Robber, Arsonist, Pirate, Mass-Murderer...
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  • advocacy of long-range hypotheses include: John Bengtson, Knut Bergsland, Derek Bickerton, Václav Blažek, Robert Caldwell, Matthias Castrén, Björn Collinder...
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    Southern California Antonio-Benitez Burraco, University of Seville Derek Bickerton, University of Hawaii Cedric Boeckx, Catalan institute for Advanced...
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