ABSTRACT
C. F. Ferguson goes on to say that many languages have foreigner talk registers which need systematic investigation. S. P. Corder suggests that there are 'simple codes', among them baby talk, foreigner talk, pidgins and mterlanguage. All of these are characterized by a simple or virtually nonexistent morphological system, a more or less fixed word order a simple personal pronoun system, a small number of grammatical function words and grammatical categories, little or no use of the copula and absence of an article system. Turkish foreigner talk was recorded in interactions in a Turkish village involving native speakers of Turkish and German tourists. Both John Reinecke and R. A. Hall mention the role of nautical jargon in pidgin formation. L. Bloomfield was one of the more influential figures who elaborated this view and used the term 'baby-talk', which has since become a label for another theory concerning pidgin origins.
