Until the 1950s, however, there was no recognized field of pidgin-creole studies. Only a few of the individual languages had been reliably and objectively studied, and most educated people were totally unaware of them or did not consider them to be real languages.
- DeCamp (1977), a pag.7

The establishment of pidgin-creole studies as a general academic field took place in the 1950s, when Robert B. Le Page organized a linguistic survey of the West Indies and established at the University College of the West Indies a research center for creolists.
- DeCamp (1977), a pag.11-12