El estrés como causa de cambio lingüístico: una visión de la teoría criollista de Bickerton desde la problemática de la afasia

Abstract

According to Bickerton (1981), Creole languages have been developed in psychological and\nlinguistic stress situations. As a puzzling result, creoles resemble each other more than they\nresemble �linguistically speaking� the dominant language of the environment. Among the features\nof Creole languages are: use of minimal phonetic-phonological systems, with non-marked elements;\nparatactic constructions or simple syntax with elements attached by conjunction, and use of\npragmatic discursive modes, linked to the context (Givón, 1979). This paper suggests that aphasia\ncan also be conceived as the result of a psychological and linguistic stress situation similar to that\ndescribed for creoles, in which speakers must address their communication needs with resources of\nuniversal grammar.