Progression and Regression in Language
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Progression and Regression in Language

Sociocultural, Neuropsychological and Linguistic Perspectives

  1. 501 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Progression and Regression in Language

Sociocultural, Neuropsychological and Linguistic Perspectives

About this book

First published in 1994, this crosslinguistic collection looks at changes and developments in language involving gain or loss in structural complexity or utility. The dynamics of these processes of progression and regression are examined at the societal and the individual level, and the two are compared. In the former, the focus is on the social and cultural forces that influence groups of speakers to create new languages or abandon old ones. In the latter, the acquisition and attrition of both first and second languages are considered. Questions raised include: Can parallel structural patterning be observed in whole languages and in the individual's version of a language? Is there parallelism between progression and regression? Can changes occurring in progression and regression be interpreted in a typological framework? These are addressed from sociological, neuropsychological, and linguistic perspectives.

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Year
1994
Print ISBN
9780521438742
eBook ISBN
9780511890659

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of contributors
  7. Preface
  8. INTRODUCTION
  9. THE SOCIO CULTURAL SETTING
  10. PSYCHO- AND NEUROLINGUISTIC ASPECTS
  11. THE LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE 1: DISCOURSE, GRAMMAR, AND LEXIS
  12. THE LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE 2: PHONOLOGY
  13. Index

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