Derek Bickerton

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Derek Bickerton

Communications

#57

World Rank

#122

Historical Rank

#34

USA Rank

Linguistics

#51

World Rank

#71

Historical Rank

#31

USA Rank

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Why Is Derek Bickerton Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Derek Bickerton was an English-born linguist and professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Based on his work in creole languages in Guyana and Hawaii, he has proposed that the features of creole languages provide powerful insights into the development of language both by individuals and as a feature of the human species. He is the originator and main proponent of the language bioprogram hypothesis according to which the similarity of creoles is due to their being formed from a prior pidgin by children who all share a universal human innate grammar capacity.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Derek Bickerton?

Derek Bickerton is affiliated with the following schools:

• University of California, Berkeley
• University of Guyana
• University of Cambridge