Linguistic evolution through language acquisition /
Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) 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 langu...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 349 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 0511020201 9780511020209 9780521662994 0521662990 9780511486524 0511486529 9786610421015 6610421013 9786610702220 6610702225 1107128501 9781107128507 1280421010 9781280421013 0511177542 9780511177545 0511147929 9780511147920 0511325746 9780511325748 0511049099 9780511049095 |