Wow! eBook
Linguistic Evolution through Language Acquisition
Author(s): Ted Briscoe
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: September 11, 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 360 pages
- ISBN-10: 0521078938
- ISBN-13: 9780521078931
Book Description
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.
