The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars: Language Contact and Change
(Part of the Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521150221
ISBN13:9780521150224
Release Date:May 2019
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:364 Pages
Weight:1.08 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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