Download or read book Language Creation and Language Change written by Michel DeGraff and published by Bradford Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The originality of this volume is in its comparison of various sorts oflanguage growth from a number of linguistic-theoretic and empiricalperspectives, using data from both speech and gestural modalities andfrom a diversity of acquisition environments.