The Development of Language: Acquisition, Change, and Evolution: 1 (Blackwell/Maryland Lectures in Language and Cognition)

by David Lightfoot (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  1998

  $58.88

  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.