Cross-linguistic variation and efficiency / Prof. John A. Hawkins.

This title argues that major patterns of variation across languages are structured by general principles of efficiency in language use and communication, an approach that has far-reaching theoretical consequences for issues such as ease of processing, language universals, complexity, and competing a...

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Main Author: Hawkins, John A. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford linguistics.
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