[填空题]The changes in language will continue forever, but no one knows sure 1. ______
who does the changing. One possibility is that children are responsible. A
professor of linguistic at the University of Hawaii, explores this in one of his 2. ______
recent books. Sometimes around 1880, a language catastrophe occurred in 3. ______
Hawaii when thousands of emigrant workers were brought to the islands to 4. ______
work for the new sugar industry. These people speaking different languages
were unable to communicate with each other or with the native Hawaiians or
the dominant English-speaking owners of the plantations. So they first spoke
in Pidgin English-- the sort of thing such mixed language populations have 5. ______
always done. A pidgin is not real]y a language at all. It is more like a set of
verbal signals used to name objects and without the grammatical rules needed
for expressing thoughts and ideas. And then, within a single generatio

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