Creating Language: Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing

by Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater

Book Overview

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.

Language is a hallmark of the human species; the flexibility and unbounded expressivity of our linguistic abilities is unique in the biological world. In this book, Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater argue that to understand this astonishing phenomenon, we must consider...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026203431X
• ISBN13: 9780262034319
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher