Linguistic Evolution Through Language Acquisition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521662994)

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.

Author: Ted Briscoe
ISBN-10: 0521662990
ISBN-13: 9780521662994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/08/2002
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.18w x 1.11d