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Language Acquisition is Language Change

Journal 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.
Stephen, Crain   +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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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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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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Bayesianism and Language Change

Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 2003
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Tracking changes in language

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 2005
One problem that has arisen in recent years is the extraction of useful information from changes in a data stream including natural language. Statistical tests on single word occurrences can reveal many apparent differences. Understanding the reasons behind such changes in the data requires methods for discovering structure within the entire set of ...
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Language power and change

Australian College of Midwives Incorporated Journal, 1999
Language provides a means of communication. It is an efficient way to discuss ideas and information, express thoughts and emotions. The words we use and their context, can, however, alter their intent. Implicit in words and language are layers of meaning. Language is therefore powerful. Biases may be revealed, attitudes subtly reflected.
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Redundancy in Language Change

Abstract: This chapter is concerned with the impact of competing motivations in language change, in particular in regard to redundancy in linguistic systems and expressions. Specifically, this chapter reports on arguments in favour of trade-offs in linguistic strategies compared to arguments in favour of redundancy as a key feature of languages.
Zehentner, Eva, Pijpops, Dirk
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Language Change And Languages In Contact

IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science
The hypothesis of the history of linguistics as a succession of paradigms was more appropriate to linguistic facts and to the continuity of history itself than to a substitution of models. One of the most assiduously maintained principles in historical linguistics was the theory of the regularity of linguistic change.
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