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.... more with genetic deficits (e.g. Gopnik, 1994) or with an almost complete lack of linguistic input during the critical period (e.g. Curtiss, 1988) than with measures of general intelligence (e.g. Smith and Tsimpli, 1991) or the quality or informativeness of the learning environment (e.g. Bickerton, 1981; Kegl and Iwata, 1989; Ochs and Sheiffelin, 1995) 2 There is considerable psycholinguistic evidence that children have strong inductive biases in language acquisition which shape their linguistic development, the nature of their errors, and the kind of languages they are predisposed to learn. ....

Bickerton, Derek (1981) Roots of Language, Karoma, Ann Arbor.

....the chances of learners acquiring non SVO grammars declines to negligeable levels. Thus, this account is purely selectionist and predicts that the birthrate will be a factor in the speed of creolisation, but as yet does not explain how first language learners can acquire a superset creole grammar. Bickerton (1981, 1984, 1988) has argued that superstratum and substratum languages play no role in the acquisition of the creole. The evidence for this comes from the lack of a consistent grammatical relationship between the creole and these potential sources, as well as the similarities of unrelated creoles ....

Bickerton, D. (1981) Roots of Language, Karoma, Ann Arbor.

....problem of observing that is likely to be central in particular the problem of determining what meaning a signal is intended to convey. 1 The learning barrier There is a long standing tradition of treating the evolution of human language as being roughly synonymous with the evolution of syntax (Bickerton, 1981; Lieberman, 1984; Pinker and Bloom, 1990; Newmeyer, 1991) This position presumably reflects the assumption that, since other animals possess vocabulary like systems of communication, all that is left to be explained is how humans evolved the ability to use syntactic structures. Other species, ....

Bickerton, D. (1981). Roots of language. Ann Arbor, MI: Karoma.

....stay in a particular early stage: why some initial states have no corresponding adult languages, in which the child would not hear evidence disconfirming early hypotheses. A third style of account relies on a different type of semantic circumscription drawn from the repertoire of adult languages. Bickerton (1981), for example, proposes a Language Bioprogram hypothesis, based on data from pidgins and creoles. He claims that adults speaking pidgin and creole languages organize their tense marking along two innate dimensions. The first is a distinction between an event and a state. The second is between a ....

Bickerton, Derek. 1981. Roots of language. Karoma, Ann Arbor, MI.

....with human (proto)language(s) given plausible assumptions, and explore the consequences of the resulting model of both language and the language faculty for theories of language change. The paper builds on the earlier work by examining the model s ability to account for the process of creolization (Bickerton, 1981; 1984; 1988; Roberts, 1998) within a selectionist theory of language change. x1.1 and x1.2 describe the theoretical background to this research. x2 presents a detailed model of the LAD utilizing generalized categorial grammars embedded in a default inheritance network integrated with a Bayesian ....

....the face of ongoing linguistic change, in simulation runs with LAgts initialized with all default parameters, populations evolve away from such fully assimilated LADs (e.g. Briscoe, 1998) when linguistic variation is maintained. 7 Creolization The abrupt transition from pidgin to creole, which Bickerton (1981, 1984, 1988) argues occurs in one generation, constitutes one of the most dramatic and radical attested examples of language change. In more recent work, Roberts (1998) using a large database of Hawaiian pidgin and creole utterances, has revised Bickerton s original claim slightly, by arguing ....

Bickerton, D. (1981) Roots of Language, Karoma, Ann Arbor.

.... more with genetic deficits (e.g. Gopnik, 1994) or with an almost complete lack of linguistic input during the critical period (e.g. Curtiss, 1988) than with measures of general intelligence (e.g. Smith and Tsimpli, 1991) or the quality or informativeness of the learning environment (e.g. Bickerton, 1981; Kegl and Iwata, 1989; Ochs and Sheiffelin, 1995) 2 There is considerable psycholinguistic evidence that children have strong biases in language acquisition which shape their linguistic development, the nature of their errors, and the kind of languages they are predisposed to learn. Often ....

Bickerton, D. (1981) Roots of Language, Karoma, Ann Arbor.

....from grammars of the old type, and internalized grammars of a new type, while still maintaining tolerable mutual intelligibility with the previous generation. Something like this actually happens in the process of creolization. Take the extreme cases of plantation pidgins, which, according to Bickerton (1981), develop into creoles in just one generation. Here, the adult slaves share no common language, but make shift with a crude set of conventions for stringing together words mainly borrowed from the slavemaster s language. The adult slaves, though they have internal grammars of their native ....

Bickerton, Derek, (1981) Roots of Language, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Karoma Publishers.

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