How new languages emerge /

Lightfoot, David, 1945-

How new languages emerge / David W. Lightfoot. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. - ix, 199 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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.

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Language acquisition.
Linguistic change.
Language and languages--Variation.
Taalgenese.
Taalverandering.
Changement linguistique.
Langage--Acquisition.
Variation (Linguistique)
Cambio lingèuistico.
Lenguaje--Adquisición.
Lenguaje--Origen.

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