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

By Simon Kirby

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0198238118, 9780198238119
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5069004 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
156\177
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2017-05-11 14:46:39
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Description

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.

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