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2001
Developmental Science
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Again, what is the role of complexity of the input or the language used by the child, and what is the role of the age of the child, in producing the typical, optimal organization for that language in the ...
(Does more complex morphology produce more right hemisphere activation?) What is the effect of literacy and having a written form of the language (true of spoken languages but not signed languages)? ...
doi:10.1111/1467-7687.00173
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Language Contact And Language Change
2016
Zenodo
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used for regular spoken communication within a community § Problems with this: § What if there's one speaker left? ...
§ Who constitutes a speaker? § What about language revival? ...
status of Hebrew (Henkin 2011) § Language contact is a complex process § There is virtually always more than one source of contact induced change § And there are numerous different outcomes of contact ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.259985
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Language Acquisition Meets Language Evolution
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2016
Creating Language
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This paper draws out the implications of this viewpoint for understanding the problem of language acquisition, which is cast in a new, and much more tractable, form. ...
Recent research suggests that language evolution is a process of cultural change, in which linguistic structures are shaped through repeated cycles of learning and use by domain-general mechanisms. ...
Acknowledgments Nick Chater was supported by a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust and by ESRC grant number RES-000-22-2768. Morten H. Christiansen was supported by a Charles A. ...
doi:10.7551/mitpress/9780262034319.003.0003
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Language Acquisition Meets Language Evolution
2010
Cognitive Science
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This paper draws out the implications of this viewpoint for understanding the problem of language acquisition, which is cast in a new, and much more tractable, form. ...
Recent research suggests that language evolution is a process of cultural change, in which linguistic structures are shaped through repeated cycles of learning and use by domain-general mechanisms. ...
Acknowledgments Nick Chater was supported by a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust and by ESRC grant number RES-000-22-2768. Morten H. Christiansen was supported by a Charles A. ...
doi:10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01049.x
pmid:21564247
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The Dynamics of Second Language Emergence: Cycles of Language Use, Language Change, and Language Acquisition
2008
The Modern Language Journal
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Learning affects usage: (i) Where language is predominantly learned naturalistically by adults without any form focus, a typical result is a Basic Variety of interlanguage, low in grammatical complexity ...
Such influences promote language maintenance. Form, user, and use are inextricable. LANGUAGE IS A DYNAMIC SYSTEM. ...
It is no accident that Faroese, as a low-contact language not subject to adult language learning, has maintained a degree of inflectional complexity that Norwegian has lost. ...
doi:10.1111/j.1540-4781.2008.00716.x
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Language Contact and Language Change
1984
Annual Review of Anthropology
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In general, convergence of this type is problematic analytically, since the rearrangements in LI may be of a type compatible with nondiffusional (internal) language change. ...
functionally and is related directly to a particular pattern of bilingualism in which Konkani is maintained as a symbolically distinct system (i.e. with its own lexicon) despite the local predominance ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This review is, in part, an outgrowth of the author's fieldwork in Australia, Morocco, and the Philippines, supported by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, the National Science ...
doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.13.1.367
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Language Contact and Language Change
1984
Annual Review of Anthropology
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In general, convergence of this type is problematic analytically, since the rearrangements in LI may be of a type compatible with nondiffusional (internal) language change. ...
functionally and is related directly to a particular pattern of bilingualism in which Konkani is maintained as a symbolically distinct system (i.e. with its own lexicon) despite the local predominance ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This review is, in part, an outgrowth of the author's fieldwork in Australia, Morocco, and the Philippines, supported by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, the National Science ...
doi:10.1146/annurev.an.13.100184.002055
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On Language
1994
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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Does your analysis suggest this first approximation is insufficient in light of what is now known about language organization? ...
SP: If language, the quintessential higher cognitive process, is an instinct, maybe the rest of cognition is a bunch of instincts too-complex circuits designed by natural selection, each dedicated to solving ...
doi:10.1162/jocn.1994.6.1.92
pmid:23962333
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Automata and Formal Languages
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2014
Computing
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expressive power or computational complexity can be studied by relating them to formal language theory: languages, grammars, automata, . . . tradeoff between expressive power and computational complexity ...
intersection"I of M and G check if there is a path from (s 0 , x) to (s f , y )Each step can be done in PTIME, so REGULAR PATH PROBLEM has PTIME complexity for R = citizenOf | ((bornIn | livesIn) · locatedIn ...
doi:10.1201/b17011-24
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Did language evolve through language change? On language change, language evolution and grammaticalization theory
2019
Glossa
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Both models imply a very different assessment of what is changing when languages themselves change. ...
I present an explicit model of what changes when languages change, and I show that the claim that language change is a crucial factor in explaining the evolution of human language, although suggestive ...
The locus of language change To determine the locus of language change we need a global perspective of what a human language is, that is, a model of what components form any language and which of them ...
doi:10.5334/gjgl.895
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Ape Language
1981
Science
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What is the language competence of an autistic child who shuns human contacts but is forcibly taught a language for a couple of hours each day? ...
Of even greater importance is the lack of any evidence that Koko's use of sign language increased in complexity as her MLU increased. ...
doi:10.1126/science.211.4477.86-a
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When Language Resists. From Divergence to Language Dynamics
2017
Journal of Language Contact
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The contributions plead for a differential description of language development (variation, change, stability) insofar as a given contact phenomenon makes sense in a different way from various perspectives ...
As convergence/divergence represent more/less structural harmony between languages in contact, the deeper sense of internal and external motivations (factors, mechanisms) of these dynamics is discussed ...
What about regular, continuous change such as dom in Spanish? ...
doi:10.1163/19552629-01002013
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How language production shapes language form and comprehension
2013
Frontiers in Psychology
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The claim that language form stems in large degree from producers' attempts to mitigate utterance planning difficulty is contrasted with alternative accounts in which form is driven by language use more ...
The PDC instead links basic features of comprehension to a different source: production processes that shape language form. ...
This work greatly benefitted from comments by Gary Lupyan, Jenny Saffran, Mark Seidenberg, and members of the Language and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ...
doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00226
pmid:23637689
pmcid:PMC3636467
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Naturalness in language Naturalness in language
2008
Ilha do Desterro
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It is important to examine what the further restrictions might be, for at least three reasons: a- there is no reason to believe that the restrictions are any less central in language structure than those ...
It is important to examine what the further restrictions might be, for at least three reasons: a- there is no reason to believe that the restrictions are any less central in language structure than those ...
Example 7 is a natural response to a particular kind of request, but it is not well-formed by regular rules of English sentence structure. ...
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From Language Learning to Language Evolution
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2003
Language Evolution
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what is being learned. ...
A completely regular paradigm is perfectly stable, so there is no reason to expect that language must have irregulars (for example, Chinese is noted for the rarity of irregularity). ...
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199244843.003.0015
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