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Harrison et al. (1988) discuss the Founder Effect' in biology and human evolution, and Mufwene (2001) applies it as a creolistic tool to explain why the structural features of so-called creoles (which he regards as normal languages' just like English) are largely predetermined by the characteristics of the languages spoken by the founder population, i.e. by the first colonists.
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