I-IV -- Contents -- Introduction: Creole languages and language acquisition -- Part I Creolization as first-language acquisition -- Small steps or large leaps? Undergeneralization and overgeneralization in creole acquisition -- Creoles and the bankruptcy of current acquisition theory -- Comment on Bickerton's paper -- Ambient language and learner output in a creole environment -- Creole languages and parameter setting: A case study using Haitian Creole and the pro-drop parameter -- Part II Creolization as second-language acquisition -- Does creologeny really recapitulate ontogeny? -- The making of a language from a lexical point of view -- Creolization and the acquisition of English as a second language -- Part III Creolization as relexification -- The functional category "agreement" and creole genesis -- On the acquisition of nominal structures in the genesis of Haitian Creole