16.2716, Books: Anth Ling/Cog Sci/Historical Ling: Minett, Wang

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Date: 20-Sep-2005
From: Edmund Chan < upress at cityu.edu.hk >
Subject: Language Acquisition, Change and Emergence: Minett, Wang (Eds) 

	
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:47:47
From: Edmund Chan < upress at cityu.edu.hk >
Subject: Language Acquisition, Change and Emergence: Minett, Wang (Eds) 
 



Title: Language Acquisition, Change and Emergence 
Subtitle: Essays in Evolutionary Linguistics 
Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: City University of Hong Kong Press
	   www.cityu.edu.hk/upress
	
Editor: James W. Minett, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Editor: Wiliam S-Y. Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Paperback: ISBN: 9629371111 Pages: 552 Price: U.S. $ 30.00


Abstract:

Evolution of language has evolved at multiple levels--from changes in the
cognitive processes by which language is acquired in the individual, to
language change by diffusion of acquired linguistic features across
populations of individuals, to the emergence of linguistic features over
phylogenetic time scales. Evolution of language at each of these levels
interacts with that at each other level.

This volume is a collection of essays by noted researchers from diverse
fields that deals with a broad spectrum of issues in the study of language
evolution. The principle topics addressed here include: 

(1) the genetic and cognitive bases for the phylogenetic emergence of
language; 
(2) several distinct accounts of the underlying cognitive processes by
which children learn to acquire language; 
(3) a critique of the methods employed by historical linguists in the last
century;
(4) the modeling of language evolution using mathematical and computational
techniques; 
(5) discussions on the complexity of language. 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science
                     Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): None ()


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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