[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 express