It is this increase in the use of creole forms which some have called recreolization […].
- Romaine (1988), a pag.188

It is this refocusing of norms in the direction of basilectal speech that I will call recreolization. I discussed […] some of the difficulties in assuming that the Jamaican situation was once polarized in this fashion, ie in the original stages of the formation of Jamaican Creole, and that under decreolization the continuum was filled. Recreolization in a sense recreates this gap.
- Romaine (1988), a pag.192