LINGUIST List 10.1059

Sun Jul 11 1999

Books: Creolization, Lang Change, and Lang Acquisition

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  • Jud Wolfskill, Creolization, Diachrony, and Development, Ed. M. DeGraff

    Message 1: Creolization, Diachrony, and Development, Ed. M. DeGraff

     Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 12:06:11 -0400
    From: Jud Wolfskill <wolfskilMIT.EDU>
    Subject: Creolization, Diachrony, and Development, Ed. M. DeGraff


    The following is a book which readers of this list might find of interest. For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/DEGLHF98

    Language Creation and Language Change

    Creolization, Diachrony, and Development

    edited by Michel DeGraff

    Research on creolization, language change, and language acquisition has been converging toward a triangulation of the constraints along which grammatical systems develop within individual speakers--and (viewed externally) across generations of speakers. The originality of this volume is in its comparison of various sorts of language development from a number of linguistic-theoretic and empirical perspectives, using data from both speech and gestural modalities and from a diversity of acquisition environments. In turn, this comparison yields fresh insights on the mental bases of language creation.

    The book is organized into five parts: creolization and acquisition; acquisition under exceptional circumstances; language processing and syntactic change; parameter setting in acquisition and through creolization and language change; and a concluding part integrating the contributors' observations and proposals into a series of commentaries on the state of the art in our understanding of language development, its role in creolization and diachrony, and implications for linguistic theory.

    Michel DeGraff is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

    Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change series

    Contributors

    Dany Adone, Derek Bickerton, Adrienne Bruyn, Marie Coppola, Michel DeGraff, Viviane Deprez, Alison Henry, Judy Kegl, David Lightfoot, John S. Lumsden, Salikoko S. Mufwene, Pieter Muysken, Elissa L. Newport, Luigi Rizzi, Ian Roberts, Ann Senghas, Rex A. Sprouse, Denise Tangney, Anne Vainikka, Barbara S. Vance, Maaike Verrips.

    7 x 10, 586 pp., 4 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-04168-5



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