'Creolization' is the process by which one or more pidginized variants of a language (emerging from an initial multilingual contact situation of the type described), are extended in domains of use and in the range of communicative and expressive functions they must serve. Frequently, but not necessarily, this process is associated with native use by children born in the contact situation. The pidginized variants are usually assumed to undergo “complication” and “expansion” of linguistic resources in the process, and the term 'creole' may be used for any stable variety that results from this process.
- Rickford (1977), a pag.192