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Slobin, Dan I. – 1975
Observation of child language development is just one way to study how language changes over time. Developmental psycholinguistics shares much common ground with historical linguistics and with studies of languages in contact and the evolution of pidgins and creoles. By studying the way language changes, this paper focuses on clarifying the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Creoles