Development of Language - Acquisition, Change and Evolution

Name: Development of Language - Acquisition, Change and Evolution
Brand: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
SKU: 9780631210603
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Autor: David Lightfoot

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How and why do languages change over time? Could the way an individual child develops affect aggrega...

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Autor

David Lightfoot

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

1998

Pagini

300

EAN

9780631210603

ISBN

0631210601

Enbook ID

04898550

Editura

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Greutate

446

Dimensiuni

268 x 154 x 19

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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? To answer these questions, David Lightfoot looks closely at young children. A child develops a grammar on exposure to some triggering experience. A small perturbation in the trigger may entail a different grammar in the next population of speakers, with dramatic effects. This 'sensitive dependence on initial conditions' is the key to explaining how languages change, and why they change in fits and starts.The 'cue-based' approach to language acquisition presented here is a radical departure from formal models of language learning. Lightfoot challenges conventional understanding by showing that language change is essentially contingent - unpredictable but explainable; and he contests how far natural selection enables us to understand the evolution of the language faculty in the species.

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