decreolization

English

Etymology

de- +‎ creolization

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /diːˌkɹɪəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/

Noun

decreolization (usually uncountable, plural decreolizations)

  1. The process of decreolizing.
    • 1989, Ofelia García, Ricardo Otheguy, English across cultures, cultures across English, →ISBN, page 277:
      At some point in the decreolization process, however, xenolectal structures become masked by surface-structure mimicry of the matrilect, so that the apparent degree of xenolecticity of the evolving mimolect drops below the real level, as represented by the crossover of A-B and C-D.
    • 1990, Edward Herman Bendix, The Uses of Linguistics - Volume 583, →ISBN, page 43:
      In the process, as substantial numbers of black speakers underwent decreolization, their decreolized speech, although technically a mimolect, would have much of the surface form and therefore social status of a true matrilect, and would itself then serve as an additional model for those speakers further behind in the decreolization process.

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