A developmental view on incrementation in language change

IF 0.6 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Theoretical Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI:10.1515/tl-2019-0010
Ailís Cournane
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Abstract Acquisition is an intuitive place to look for explanation in language change. Each child must learn their individual grammar(s) via the indirect process of analyzing the output of others’ grammars, and the process necessarily involves social transmission over several years. On the basis of child language learning behaviors, I ask whether it is reasonable to expect the incrementation (advancement) of new variants to be kicked off by and sustained by the acquisition process. I discuss literature on how children respond to input variation, and a series of new studies experimentally testing incrementation, and argue that at least for some phenomena, young children overgeneralize innovative variants beyond their input. I sketch a model of incrementation based on initial overgeneralization, and offer further thoughts on next steps. Much collaborative work remains to precisely link analogous dynamic phenomena in learning and change.
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语言变化增量的发展性观点
习得是语言变化中寻找解释的直观场所。每个孩子都必须通过分析他人语法输出的间接过程来学习自己的语法,而这一过程必然涉及数年的社会传递。在儿童语言学习行为的基础上,我提出这样一个问题:期待新变体的增加(进步)由习得过程启动并持续下去是否合理?我讨论了关于儿童如何对输入变化做出反应的文献,以及一系列实验测试增量的新研究,并认为至少对于某些现象,幼儿过度概括了超出其输入的创新变体。我在最初的过度概括的基础上概述了一个增量模型,并提供了对下一步的进一步思考。许多协作工作仍然是为了精确地将学习和变化中的类似动态现象联系起来。
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期刊介绍: Theoretical Linguistics is an open peer review journal. Each issue contains one long target article about a topic of general linguistic interest, together with several shorter reactions, comments and reflections on it. With this format, the journal aims to stimulate discussion in linguistics and adjacent fields of study, in particular across schools of different theoretical orientations.
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