{"id":1420,"date":"2006-07-31T14:16:38","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T12:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2006-07-31T19:00:41","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T17:00:41","slug":"do-you-know-creole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/31\/do-you-know-creole\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you know Creole?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally took the time to format and update <a href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/papers\/creolization-and-cognition\/\">a small paper<\/a> I wrote last month on the creolization process and its interpretations in cognitive science.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its pompous title, it is very much layman-oriented and designed as a general presentation of creolization.<\/p>\n<p>What <em>is<\/em> creolization, I hear you ask?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s a fascinating phenomenon observed in communities where kids raised by speakers of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pidgin\">pidgin<\/a> end up spontaneously producing a more grammatically advanced language of their own (a creole). Not only does it happen in practically every known instance of such pidgin-speaking communities, but a similar process has been observed in Nicaragua with sign language.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond their ethnological and linguistics interest, Creolization studies give great insights as to how humans learn to speak and the cognitive process involved.<\/p>\n<p>If you have some interest into either of these fields, you can read the whole thing here:<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/papers\/creolization-and-cognition\/\">Creolization and Cognitive Theories of Language Acquisition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And by the way, don&#8217;t let the pedantic tone fool you&#8230; I don&#8217;t have the slightest idea what I&#8217;m talking about in there: I am neither a linguist nor much of a cognitive scientist. This particular assignment just happened to have enough wiggle room that I could escape the dreary droning of a typical math&#8217;n&#8217;physics paper in my choice of topic. <\/p>\n<p>Feel free to post comments, additional info or point out some of the gross inaccuracies no doubt littering the text in the <a href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/papers\/creolization-and-cognition\/#comments\">comment area provided to that effect<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally took the time to format and update a small paper I wrote last month on the creolization process and its interpretations in cognitive science. Despite its pompous title, it is very much layman-oriented and designed as a general presentation of creolization. What is creolization, I hear you ask? Well, it&#8217;s a fascinating phenomenon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cognitive-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}