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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As children acquire the pidgin , they use it with playmates and other children in their peer group.
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As we have already noted, pidgins are generally used by native speakers of other languages as a medium of communication.
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Compared to pidgins, a proper language can convey such complicated concepts using relatively few words.
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There is space here only to summarise very briefly the large amount of research on pidgin and Creole languages.
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Under certain circumstances, however, children may learn a pidgin as their first language.