17.1250, Books: Sociolinguistics: Lightfoot

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Date: 23-Apr-2006
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: How New Languages Emerge: Lightfoot 

	
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:53:34
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: How New Languages Emerge: Lightfoot 
 



Title: How New Languages Emerge 
Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521676290 


Author: David Lightfoot, Georgetown University

Hardback: ISBN: 0521859131 Pages: 210 Price: U.S. $ 75.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0521676290 Pages: 208 Price: U.S. $ 29.99


Abstract:

New languages are constantly emerging, as existing languages diverge into
different forms. To explain this fascinating process, we need to understand
how languages change and how they emerge in children. In this pioneering
study, David Lightfoot explains how languages come into being, arguing that
children are the driving force. He explores how new systems arise, how they
are acquired by children, and how adults and children play different,
complementary roles in language change. Lightfoot makes an important
distinction between 'external language' (language as it exists in the
world), and 'internal language' (language as represented in an individual's
brain). By examining the interplay between the two, he shows how children
are 'cue-based' learners, who scan their external linguistic environment
for new structures, making sense of the world outside in order to build
their internal language. Engaging and original, this book offers a
pathbreaking new account of language acquisition, variation and change.

Contents
1. Internal languages and the outside world; 
2. Traditional language change; 
3. Some properties of language organs; 
4. Languages emerging in children; 
5. New E-languages cuing new I-languages; 
6. Use and variation of grammars; 
7. The eruption of new grammars; 
8. A new historical linguistics. 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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