Mühlhäusler [Mühlhäusler, P. 1981. “The development of the category of number in Tok Pisin”, in Muysken, P. (ed.) 1981. Generative Studies on Creole Languages. Dordretch: Foris.] believes that the stabilization stage is the most central one in the life-cycle of a pidgin or creole because it is during this phase that the direction for the future development of the language is determined. A pidgin becomes a linguistic system with a well-defined set of potentialities for further expansion.
- Romaine (1988), Pag. 130