This is a study of how children acquire language and how this
affects language change over generations. Written by an
international team of experts, the volume proceeds from the basis
that we can not only address the language faculty per se within the
framework of evolutionary theory, but also the origins and
subsequent development of languages themselves; languages evolve
via cultural rather than biological transmission on a historical
rather than genetic timescale. The book is distinctive in utilizing
computational simulation and modelling to help ensure the theories
constructed are complete and precise. Drawing on a wide range of
examples, the book covers the why and how of specific syntactic
universals; the nature of syntactic change; the language-learning
mechanisms required to acquire an existing linguistic system
accurately and to impose further structure on an emerging system;
and the evolution of language(s) in relation to this learning
mechanism.
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