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How new languages emerge

Lightfoot, David, 1945-

How new languages emerge [electronic resource] / David W. Lightfoot. - Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780521859134 9780511140914 (electronic bk.)


Linguistic change.
Language acquisition.
Language and languages--Variation.

P142 / .L543 2006

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