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Linguistic Evolution through Language Acquisition Book

This is a new and groundbreaking study of how children acquire language and how this affects language change over the generations. Drawing on a wide range of examples, the book covers the why and how of specific syntactic universals; the nature of syntactic change; the language-learning mechanisms required to acquire an existing linguistic system accurately and to impose further structure on an emerging system; and the evolution of language(s) in relation to this learning mechanism.Read More

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    This groundbreaking study of how children acquire language and the effects on language change over the generations draws on a wide range of examples. The book covers specific syntactic universals and the nature of syntactic change. It reviews the language-learning mechanisms required to acquire an existing linguistic system (accurately and to impose further structure on an emerging system) and the evolution of language(s) in relation to this learning mechanism.

  • 0521078938
  • 9780521078931
  • 11 September 2008
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 360
  • 1
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