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Changing Minds Changing Tools: From Learning Theory to Language Acquisition to Language Change

Changing Minds Changing Tools: From Learning Theory to Language Acquisition to Language Change

Kapatsinski, Vsevolod

Hardcover

LinguisticsGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0262037866
ISBN13: 9780262037860
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Jul 24 2018
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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).

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