Pidgins and creoles were for a long time considered 'marginal' or 'special' languages. To call them this was to label them and the processes by which they developed as marginal to linguistic theory […].
- Traugott (1977), a pag.70

[…] pidgins and creoles present a counter-example to the basic concerns of the original transformational generative view, which focuses on comparison of synchronic states and relates simplification to child language acquisition, elaboration to adult innovation.
- Traugott (1977), a pag.85

Since pidgins tend to be spoken slowly and somewhat unrhythmically, the force of the phonological processes cannot be expected to be very great in pidgins. In creoles, however, they can have considerably greater importance, since like other native languages, creoles are spoken with speed and fluency. They develop in situations where there is relatively little identification by adults with the pidgin, because it is not their native language.
- Traugott (1977), a pag.87