Morten H. Christiansen | Nick Chater Creating language

integrating evolution, acquisition, and processing

Language is a hallmark of the human species; the flexibility and unbounded expressivity of our linguistic abilities are unique in the biological world. In this book, Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater argue that to understand this astonishing phenomenon, we must consider how language is created: moment by moment, in the generation and understanding of individual utterances; year by year, as new language learners acquire language skills; and generation by generation, as languages change, split, and...

Engels | 330 pagina's | The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts | 2016

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