TY - BOOK ID - 77900520 TI - Linguistic evolution through language acquisition PY - 2002 SN - 1107128501 1280421010 0511177542 0511020201 0511147929 0511325746 0511486529 0511049099 9780511020209 9780521662994 0521662990 9780511486524 9786610421015 6610421013 9786610702220 6610702225 9781107128507 9781280421013 9780511177545 9780511147920 9780511325748 9780511049095 0521078938 9780521078931 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Language acquisition. KW - Anthropological linguistics. KW - Evolution. KW - Philosophy KW - Creation KW - Emergence (Philosophy) KW - Teleology KW - Anthropo-linguistics KW - Ethnolinguistics KW - Language and ethnicity KW - Linguistic anthropology KW - Linguistics and anthropology KW - Anthropology KW - Language and culture KW - Linguistics KW - Acquisition of language KW - Developmental linguistics KW - Developmental psycholinguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Language development in children KW - Psycholinguistics, Developmental KW - Interpersonal communication in children KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Acquisition KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Language & Linguistics KW - Ethnology. Cultural anthropology KW - Evolution. Phylogeny UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77900520 AB - This is a study of how children acquire language and how this affects language change over generations. Written by an international team of experts, the volume proceeds from the basis that we can not only address the language faculty per se within the framework of evolutionary theory, but also the origins and subsequent development of languages themselves; languages evolve via cultural rather than biological transmission on a historical rather than genetic timescale. The book is distinctive in utilizing computational simulation and modelling to help ensure the theories constructed are complete and precise. Drawing on a wide range of examples, the book covers the why and how of specific syntactic universals; the nature of syntactic change; the language-learning mechanisms required to acquire an existing linguistic system accurately and to impose further structure on an emerging system; and the evolution of language(s) in relation to this learning mechanism. ER -