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How New Languages Emerge Hardback - 2006

by David Lightfoot

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New languages are constantly emerging, as existing languages diverge into different forms. To explain this fascinating process, we need to understand how languages change and how they emerge in children. In this pioneering study, David Lightfoot explains how languages come into being, arguing that children are the driving force. He explores how new systems arise, how they are acquired by children, and how adults and children play different, complementary roles in language change. Lightfoot makes an important distinction between 'external language' (language as it exists in the world), and 'internal language' (language as represented in an individual's brain). By examining the interplay between the two, he shows how children are 'cue-based' learners, who scan their external linguistic environment for new structures, making sense of the world outside in order to build their internal language. Engaging and original, this book offers an interesting account of language acquisition, variation and change.

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  • Title How New Languages Emerge
  • Author David Lightfoot
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 212
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date 2006-01-05
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780521859134 / 0521859131
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.63 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.60 cm)
  • Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
  • Library of Congress subjects Language acquisition, Language and languages - Variation
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005015819
  • Dewey Decimal Code 417.7

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