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Language bioprogram theory
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<p>The language bioprogram theory or language bioprogram hypothesis (LBH) is a theory arguing that the structural similarities between different <a href="/facts/Creole_language/vrnq31TV">creole languages</a> cannot be solely attributed to their <a href="/facts/Superstratum/L73fjNSr">superstrate</a> and <a href="/facts/Substratum_(linguistics)/L73fjNSr">substrate</a> languages. As articulated mostly by <a href="/facts/Derek_Bickerton/r8t5HECt">Derek Bickerton</a>, <a href="/facts/Creolization/RLL8h1zB">creolization</a> occurs when the linguistic exposure of children in a community consists solely of a highly unstructured <a href="/facts/Pidgin/BqJNhPCD">pidgin</a>; these children use their innate language capacity to transform the pidgin, which characteristically has high syntactic variability, into a language with a highly structured grammar. As this capacity is universal, the grammars of these new languages have many similarities. </p>