Psycholinguistics & Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Grammar, Creole & Pidgin Languages, Historical (Diachronic) Linguistics, Developmental Psychology, Sign Language

Language Creation and Language Change: Creolization, Diachrony, and Development

Name: Language Creation and Language Change: Creolization, Diachrony, and Development
Author: Michel DeGraff
ISBN: 9780262541268

by Michel DeGraff

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Overview

Research on creolization, language change over time, and language acquisition has been converging toward a triangulation of the constraints along which grammatical systems develop within individual speakers - and (viewed externally) across generations of speakers. The originality of this volume is in its comparison of various sorts of language growth from a number of linguistic-theoretic and empirical perspectives, using data from both speech and gestural modalities and from a diversity of acquisition environments. In turn, this comparison yields fresh insights on the mental bases of language creation.

Synopsis

The originality of this volume is in its comparison of various sorts of language growth from a number of linguistic-theoretic and empirical perspectives, using data from both speech and gestural modalities and from a diversity of acquisition environments.