Language creation and language change. Creolization, diachrony, and development. - DEGRAFF, MICHEL (ed.).
Creolization, Diachrony, and Development (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change)
KORTE INHOUD
Research on creolization, language change, 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 development 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 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 rol...
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1999Uitgever: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999.574 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0262041685ISBN-13: 9780262041683Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Orig. blue cloth, gilt. With dustjacket. x,574 pp.; 26 cm. - "Learning, development, and conceptual change" Includes bibliographical references and index. Text in English. (spine d.j. sl. (sun)faded, previous owner's name at top of title page) Otherwise as new. 1650 [Auteur: DEGRAFF, MICHEL (ed.).] [Uitgever: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press] [Jaar: 1999] [Titel: Language creation and language change. Creolization, diachrony, and development.]
