Function, Selection, and Innateness: The Emergence of Language Universals

by Simon Kirby

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This book is a powerful demonstration of the value of looking at language as an adaptive system, which reaches the heart of debates in linguistics and cognitive science on the evolution and nature of language. Simon Kirby combines functional and formal theories in order to develop a way of treating language as an adaptive system in which its communicative and formal roles have crucial and complimentary roles.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198238118

ISBN13:9780198238119

Release Date:June 1999

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:172 Pages

Weight:0.94 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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Cognitive Language Arts

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