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- catalog abstract ""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?" "The "cue-based" approach to language acquisition presented here is a radical departure from formal models of language learning. Lightfoot challenges conventional understanding by showing that language change is essentially contingent - unpredictable but explainable; and he contests how far natural selection enables us to understand the evolution of the language faculty in the species."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b11385657.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""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?" "The "cue-based" approach to language acquisition presented here is a radical departure from formal models of language learning. Lightfoot challenges conventional understanding by showing that language change is essentially contingent - unpredictable but explainable; and he contests how far natural selection enables us to understand the evolution of the language faculty in the species."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. The Nineteenth: Century of History -- 3. Grammars and Language Acquisition -- 4. Gradualism and Catastrophes -- 5. The Loss of Case and its Syntactic Effects -- 6. Cue-Based Acquisition and Change in Grammars -- 7. Equilibrium and Small Punctuations -- 8. Historicism: The Use and Abuse of Clio -- 9. The Evolution of the Language Faculty -- 10. A Science of History.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 287 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0631210598 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "0631210601 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Blackwell/Maryland lectures in language and cognition ; 1".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Malden, Mass., USA : Blackwell Publishers,".
- catalog subject "401/.93 21".
- catalog subject "Grammar, Comparative and general.".
- catalog subject "Language acquisition.".
- catalog subject "Language and languages Origin.".
- catalog subject "Linguistic change.".
- catalog subject "P142 .L54 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. The Nineteenth: Century of History -- 3. Grammars and Language Acquisition -- 4. Gradualism and Catastrophes -- 5. The Loss of Case and its Syntactic Effects -- 6. Cue-Based Acquisition and Change in Grammars -- 7. Equilibrium and Small Punctuations -- 8. Historicism: The Use and Abuse of Clio -- 9. The Evolution of the Language Faculty -- 10. A Science of History.".
- catalog title "The development of language : acquisition, change, and evolution / David Lightfoot.".
- catalog type "text".