What distinguishes creole languages from pidgins during language acquisition among child speakers in a mixed linguistic environment?

💡 Explanation

Creoles, unlike pidgins, undergo grammaticalization, developing complex syntactic structures and a full range of expressive possibilities, because child speakers impose consistent rules. This expanded structure makes them complete languages; therefore, they offer full expressive capacity, rather than limited, simplified forms seen in pidgins.

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