This does not necessarily have any bearing on issues regarding psycholinguistic complexity, however, and certainly not on their expressive potential.”Ĭreole languages are therefore said to be less complex grammatically (less over-specification, structural elaboration and irregularity). Thus Parkvall (2008) concludes: “Typologically speaking, Creoles stand out from languages in general, and the most salient difference is that they present a lower structural complexity. He also added some Pidgin and Creole languages in the WALS sample and then ranked the complexity of these languages: 18 main features were used (a subset of Parkvall’s 53 features) to measure complexity: To answer this question, Parkvall (2008) examines 53 WALS (The World Atlas of Linguistic Structures) features which reflect degrees of complexity, and codes them additionally in 29 pidgins and creoles, comparing the degree of complexity of these creoles with 153 non-creoles of the WALS sample.
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