How new languages emerge /

Lightfoot, David

How new languages emerge / - New York : Cambridge University Press, c2006. - ix, 199 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references & index.


0521676290


1. Linguistic change.
2. Language acquisition.
3. Language and languages–Variation.

Circ. 417.7 L724h 2006