How new languages emerge / David W. Lightfoot.
David Lightfoot explains how languages come into being, arguing that children are the driving force. He explores how new systems arise, how they are acquired by children, and how adults and children play different complementary roles in language change.
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core Contributor biographical information |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Internal languages and the outside world
- 2. Traditional language change
- 3. Some properties of language organs
- 4. Languages emerging in children
- 5. New E-language cuing new I-languages
- 6. Use and variation of grammars
- 7. The eruption of new grammars
- 8. A new historical linguistics.