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The Development of Language: Acquisition, Change, and Evolution - Blackwell / Maryland Lectures in Language and Cognition
Lightfoot, David (National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA)
The Development of Language: Acquisition, Change, and Evolution - Blackwell / Maryland Lectures in Language and Cognition
Lightfoot, David (National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA)
How and why do languages change over time? Could the way an individual child develops affect aggregate language change? What do the mechanisms of change tell us about the evolution of language in our species? This book asserts that a child develops a grammar on exposure to some triggering experience.
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Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | November 23, 1998 |
ISBN13 | 9780631210603 |
Publishers | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
Pages | 300 |
Dimensions | 268 × 154 × 19 mm · 446 g |
Language | English |