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Language Creation and Language Change: Creolization, Diachrony and Development (Learning, Development and Conceptual Change) Book

Research on creolization, language change over time, and language acquisition has been converging toward a triangulation of the constraints along which grammatical systems develop within individual speakers--and (viewed externally) across generations of speakers. The originality of this volume is in its comparison of various sorts of language growth from a number of linguistic-theoretic and empirical perspectives, using data from both speech and gestural modalities and from a diversity of acquisition environments. In turn, this comparison yields fresh insights on the mental bases of language creation. The paperback edition contains a new preface. The book is organized into five parts: creolization and acquisition; acquisition under exceptional circumstances; language processing and syntactic change; parameter setting in acquisition and through creolization and language change; and a concluding part integrating the contributors' observations and proposals into a series of commentaries on the state of the art in our understanding of language development, its role in creolization and diachrony, and implications for linguistic theory.Read More

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  • 0262541262
  • 9780262541268
  • M DeGraff
  • 18 April 2001
  • MIT Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 583
  • New edition
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