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This text is organized into five parts: creolization and acquisition; acquisition under exceptional circumstances; language processing and syntactic change; parameter setting in acquisition and through creolization and language change; and a concluding part integrating the contributors' observations and proposals into a series of commentaries on late-1990s research into the understanding of language development, its role in creolization and diachrony, and implications for linguistic theory.

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This book represents an impressive range of informative reports on the development of languages through change, creolization, and creation, including the important story of the emergence of Sign Language in Nicaragua, a major event in the lives of the people affected and in the history of scientific language scholarship. --Kenneth L. Hale, Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Amerindian and Australian Languages, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

This book represents an impressive range of informative reports onthe development of languages through change, creolization, andcreation, including the important story of the emergence of SignLanguage in Nicaragua, a major event in the lives of the peopleaffected and in the history of scientific language scholarship. Kenneth L. Hale, Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Modern Languages andLinguistics, Linguistic Theory, Amerindian and Australian Languages,Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Michel DeGraff is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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