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==Syntactic similarities==
By comparing [[Hawaiian Pidgin]] and Creole{{which|date=February 2017}}, Bickerton identified twelve features which he believed to be integral to any creole:{{Citation needed|date=February 2008}}
*Sentence structure: [[subject–verb–object]] word order, with similar mechanisms for using word order to apply [[Focus (linguistics)|focus]] to one of these constituents.
*Articles: [[definite article]] applied to specific and identified noun phrase, [[indefinite article]] applied to specific and newly asserted noun phrase, and zero for nonspecific noun phrase.
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