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Language processing in posterior fossa tumour patients: Psycholinguistic insights into the word-finding ability

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Ahmed R   +16 more
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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 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 change [PDF]

open access: possible, 2003
Abstract A dynamical system is a system that evolves in time. The core of our approach to language acquisition thus far has been to account for changes in the grammatical description of an individual’s linguistic knowledge in terms of the underlying dynamical system that embodies this knowledge.
Peter W Culicover, Andrzej Nowak
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