Morten H Christiansen: 2 books
Creating Language
Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences.
Language is a hallmark of the human species; the flexibility and unbounded expressivity of our linguistic abilities is unique...
by Morten H. Christiansen, Christopher Collins, Shimon Edelman
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Languages differ from one another in bewildering and seemingly arbitrary ways. For example, in English, the verb precedes the direct object ('understand the proof'), but in Japanese, the direct object comes first. In some languages, such as Mohawk, it is not even possible to establish a basic word...