Creating Language: Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing (The MIT Press) - Hardcover

Christiansen, Morten H. (Professor, Cornell University); Chater, Nick (Professor Of Behavioural Science, The University Of Warwick)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 026203431X ISBN 13: 9780262034319

Verlag: The MIT Press, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Language is a hallmark of the human species; the flexibility and unbounded expressivity of our linguistic abilities is unique in the biological world. In this book, Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater argue that to understand this astonishing phenomenon, we must consider how language is created: moment by moment, in the generation and understanding of individual utterances; year by year, as new language learners acquire language skills; and generation by generation, as languages change, split, and fuse through the processes of cultural evolution. Christiansen and Chater propose a revolutionary new framework for understanding the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, offering an integrated theory of how language creation is intertwined across these multiple timescales.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Morten H. Christiansen is Professor of Psychology and Codirector of the Cognitive Science Program at Cornell University.

Nick Chater is Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick.

Peter Culicover is Professor of Linguistics at Ohio State University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 026203431X
• ISBN 13: 9780262034319
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344
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