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Translation and Language Change

open access: yesMediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2014
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Language Acquisition is Language Change [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2006
According to the theory of Universal Grammar, the primary linguistic data guides children through an innately specified space of hypotheses. On this view, similarities between child-English and adult-German are as unsurprising as similarities between cousins who have never met.
Takuya Goro   +2 more
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Language of Change Requires a Change of Language

IEEE Engineering Management Review, 2018
The Dutch Government uses projects and programs to facilitate and implement many of their large changes. Since 2009, the gateway review method was introduced, providing a peer review upon request of the senior responsible owner of such high-risk projects and programs.
Pieter Frijns   +2 more
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Individuality in Language Change

2021
Abstract: Linguists have typically studied language change at the aggregate level of speech communities, yet key mechanisms of change such as analogy and automation operate within the minds of individual language users. Drawing on lifespan data from 50 authors and the intriguing case of the special passives in the history of English, this study ...
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Language acquisition and language change

WIREs Cognitive Science, 2010
AbstractChildren acquire a mature language system and sometimes this system differs from that of their parents. This is a significant part of language change and understanding acquisition is key to understanding this kind of change in people's internal grammars. I outline one approach to language acquisition, based on children finding cues expressed in
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Language Contact and Language Change

Annual Review of Anthropology, 1984
In principle, the study of language contact can be defined open-endedly, dealing with the gamut of linguistic and sociolinguistic components, and ranging from microscopic analysis of recorded speech fragments to the fate of nations. In the present review we are concerned more narrowly with the kinds of language change traditionally dealt with by ...
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