Creating language : integrating evolution, acquisition, and processing /
Christiansen, Morten H.,1963-author.
Chater, Nick,author.
A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences.
Specialized.
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Contents; Foreword; Preface; I Theoretical and Empirical Foundations; 1 Language Created across Multiple Timescales; 2 Language as Shaped by the Brain; 3 Language Acquisition Meets Language Evolution; 4 The Now-or-Never Processing Bottleneck; II Implications for the Nature of Language; 5 Language Acquisition through Multiple-Cue Integration; 6 Experience-Based Language Processing; 7 Recursion as a Usage-Based Skill; 8 From Fragmentation to Integration; References; Name Index; Subject Index
Specialized.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences.
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Creativity (Linguistics)
Language acquisition.
Cognition.
Psycholinguistics.
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General