[图书][B] Creating language: Integrating evolution, acquisition, and processing

MH Christiansen, N Chater - 2016 - books.google.com
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 …

[PDF][PDF] The origins of arbitrariness in language

M Gasser - Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Cognitive …, 2004 - escholarship.org
Human language exhibits mainly arbitrary relationships between the forms and meanings of
words. Why would this be so? In this paper I argue that arbitrariness becomes necessary as …

[图书][B] The handbook of language emergence

B MacWhinney, W O'Grady - 2015 - books.google.com
This authoritative handbook explores the latest integrated theory for understanding human
language, offering the most inclusive text yet published on the rapidly evolving emergentist …

Words and rules

S Pinker - Lingua, 1998 - Elsevier
The vast expressive power of language is made possible by two principles: the arbitrary
sound-meaning pairing underlying words, and the discrete combinatorial system underlying …

[图书][B] How languages work: An introduction to language and linguistics

C Genetti, AS Adelman - 2019 - books.google.com
Language is a sophisticated tool which we use to communicate in a multitude of ways.
Updated and expanded in its second edition, this book introduces language and linguistics …