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. Series: Blackwell/Maryland Lectures in Language & Cognition. Num Pages: 304 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFFD; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420. . 1999. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .

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Titel: The Development of Language: Acquisition, Change, and Evolution
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Ver�ffentlichungsdatum: 1998
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0631210601
ISBN-13: 9780631210603
Bindung: Softcover
Ausgabe: 1. Auflage
Zustand: New

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A language develops over time, it develops in a child, and the capacity for language has evolved in the human species.

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David Lightfoot is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park where he is also Associate Director of the program in Neural and Cognitive Science. His books include The Language Lottery and How to Set Parameters.

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