The Development of Language - Acquisition, Change and Evolution - Paperback - 1998

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? This book asserts that a child develops a grammar on exposure to some triggering experience.
Year of publication: 1998
Pagination: 304 pages, 0
Format: Paperback
Serie: Blackwell/Maryland Lectures in Language Cognition