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Changing Minds Changing Tools - From Learning Theory to Language Acquisition to Language Change (Hardcover)
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Changing Minds Changing Tools - From Learning Theory to Language Acquisition to Language Change (Hardcover)
Series: Changing Minds Changing Tools
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A book that uses domain-general learning theory to explain
recurrent trajectories of language change. In this book, Vsevolod
Kapatsinski argues that language acquisition-often approached as an
isolated domain, subject to its own laws and mechanisms-is simply
learning, subject to the same laws as learning in other domains and
well described by associative models. Synthesizing research in
domain-general learning theory as it relates to language
acquisition, Kapatsinski argues that the way minds change as a
result of experience can help explain how languages change over
time and can predict the likely directions of language change-which
in turn predicts what kinds of structures we find in the languages
of the world. What we know about how we learn (the core question of
learning theory) can help us understand why languages are the way
they are (the core question of theoretical linguistics). Taking a
dynamic, usage-based perspective, Kapatsinski focuses on diachronic
universals, recurrent pathways of language change, rather than
synchronic universals, properties that all languages share. Topics
include associative approaches to learning and the neural
implementation of the proposed mechanisms; selective attention;
units of language; a comparison of associative and Bayesian
approaches to learning; representation in the mind of visual and
auditory experience; the production of new words and new forms of
words; and automatization of repeated action sequences. This
approach brings us closer to understanding why languages are the
way they are, Kapatsinski contends, than approaches premised on
innate knowledge of language universals and the language
acquisition device.
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