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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 18 March 2016
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10406.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262334778
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 18 March 2016
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10406.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262334778
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 18 March 2016
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10406.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262334778
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 18 March 2016
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10406.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262334778
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 18 March 2016
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10406.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262334778
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 18 March 2016
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10406.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262334778
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. Language is a hallmark of the human species; the flexibility and unbounded expressivity of our linguistic abilities is 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 fuse through the processes of cultural evolution. Christiansen and Chater propose a revolutionary new framework for understanding the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, offering an integrated theory of how language creation is intertwined across these multiple timescales. Christiansen and Chater argue that mainstream generative approaches to language do not provide compelling accounts of language evolution, acquisition, and processing. Their own account draws on important developments from across the language sciences, including statistical natural language processing, learnability theory, computational modeling, and psycholinguistic experiments with children and adults. Christiansen and Chater also consider some of the major implications of their theoretical approach for our understanding of how language works, offering alternative accounts of specific aspects of language, including the structure of the vocabulary, the importance of experience in language processing, and the nature of recursive linguistic structure.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 18 March 2016
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10406.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262334778
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 18 March 2016
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10406.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262334778
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 18 March 2016
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10406.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262334778
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 18 March 2016
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10406.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262334778
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 18 March 2016
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10406.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262334778
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 18 March 2016
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10406.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262334778
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 18 March 2016
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10406.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262334778
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 18 March 2016
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10406.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262334778
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 18 March 2016
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10406.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262334778
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 18 March 2016
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10406.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262334778
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 18 February 2005
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5331.003.0021
EISBN: 9780262275958
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 18 February 2005
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5331.003.0022
EISBN: 9780262275958
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 18 February 2005
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5331.003.0023
EISBN: 9780262275958
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 18 February 2005
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/5331.003.0024
EISBN: 9780262275958