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Paperback The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars: Language Contact and Change Book

ISBN: 0521150221

ISBN13: 9780521150224

The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars: Language Contact and Change

(Part of the Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact Series)

Children are extremely gifted in acquiring their native languages, but languages nevertheless change over time. Why does this paradox exist? In this study of creole languages, Enoch Olad Aboh addresses this question, arguing that language acquisition requires contact between different linguistic sub-systems that feed into the hybrid grammars that learners develop. There is no qualitative difference between a child learning their language in a multilingual...

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