Derek Bickerton

High school (ages 12+)
Human Body

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Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

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Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

Linguistics: The scientific study of language, its structure, and its relation to society.
Creole Language: A stable, natural language that develops from the mixing of parent languages, becoming the native language of a community.
Pidgin: A grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups of people that do not have a language in common.
Language Bioprogram Hypothesis: The theory that children possess an innate, genetically determined linguistic blueprint that shapes the development of creole languages.