Creating language : integrating evolution, acquisition, and processing / Christiansen, Morten H., and Nick Chater ; foreword by Peter W. Culicover.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- 9780262334778
- 0262334771
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- P37 .C547 2016eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 22, 2016).
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.
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.
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