Textbook
The Development of Language: Acquisition, Change, and EvolutionISBN: 978-0-631-21060-3
Paperback
300 pages
November 1998, ©1998, Wiley-Blackwell
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* Major theorist develops new theories of language change and
language acquisition.
* Questions existing theories of the evolution of language.
* Challenges conventional understanding by showing that language change is essentially contingent.
* Offers new cue-based theory of language acquisition.
* Questions existing theories of the evolution of language.
* Challenges conventional understanding by showing that language change is essentially contingent.
* Offers new cue-based theory of language acquisition.