Creating language : integrating evolution, acquisition, and processing / Christiansen, Morten H., and Nick Chater ; foreword by Peter W. Culicover.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christiansen, Morten H., 1963- author.

Chater, Nick, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creativity (Linguistics).

Language acquisition.

Cognition.

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-33478-X

0-262-33477-1

OCLC:

945376431