Alternative views on the origin of pidgins include the idea that:
A) Pidgins develop from the common use of language rather than from properties of the human mind.
B) Pidgins develop because one linguistic community dominates the other.
C) Pidgins develop from the lack of mature adult models of the child's original language.
D) Pidgins originate due to the invariance hypothesis.

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This view suggests that pidgins arise from communication needs between communities that do not share a language, rather than from innate properties of the human mind or individual languages. Pidgins are therefore seen as a result of practical solutions to communication problems rather than as products of language development in the brain.

Alternative Views on the Origin of Pidgins Include the Idea