Creole complexity has been a controversial area of research, especially since John McWhorter’s claim that Creole languages have 'the world’s simplest grammars.' Much research in this area focuses on the presence or absence ...

Until 2010, North Carolina’s courts, which promise “equal justice to all,” had no resources to accommodate the needs of all non-English speakers. They had to sign English-only forms they could not read and were expected ...