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....However, focusing on the nature of this innate knowledge, to the detriment of the study of the cultural transmission of language, means that we overlook an important dynamic which can help explain some of the fundamental structural properties of language. Following ideas developed by Hurford [15], we place an understanding of cultural evolution at the heart of our explanatory approach. An individual s linguistic competence is derived from data which is itself a consequence of the linguistic competence of other individuals. This view of language is illustrated in Figure 3. What ....
....in Figure 3. What consequences does this view of language have for evolutionary explanations of language and the language faculty The introduction of cultural transmission results in a third complex adaptive system, that of cultural evolution, operating on what has been dubbed a glossogenetic [15] time scale, intermediate between the phylogenetic and ontogenetic time scales. As in the standard adaptationist model, language acquisition is guided by an individual s innate endowment. The learner attempts to acquire the language of their cultural parents. Di erences between the language of the ....
J. R. Hurford. Nativist and functional explanations in language acquisition. In I. M. Roca, editor, Logical Issues in Language Acquisition, pages 85-136. Foris, Dordrecht, 1990.
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....[Hurford 92] shapes the language faculty in the long term through genetic transmission and in accordance with the principles of Darwinian evolution. Universal mechanisms may evolve which influence the general types of languages which are available to us. In the short term, glossogenetic processes [Hurford 90] shape language 1 such as irregular verbs or lexemes. I do not mean here irregularities which can be attributed to imperfections in the speakers language production systems (competence performance distinction) 6 specific features (or grammars) through cultural transmission over several ....
James R. Hurford. Nativist and functional explanations in language acquisition. In Iggy M. Roca, editor, Logical Issues in Language Acquisition, volume 15 of Linguistic Models, pages 85--136. Foris Publications, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1990.
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....is the alternative to evolution, some kind of deliberate, one off, large scale invention, masterminded perhaps by some genius. Such an account would see the grammar of a language as something analogous to Esperanto or perhaps Euclid s geometry 2 , a whole integrated system springing fully 1 see Hurford (1990, 1994) and Kirby (1994, 1996) 2 Pretending, for the sake of the analogy, that Ludwig Zamenhof did not model Esperanto closely on existing formed from the brow of its inventor, and preserved but scarcely improved by succeeding generations over millennia. The issue addressed could be expressed ....
Hurford, James R. 1990 "Nativist and Functional Explanations in Language Acquisition", in I.Roca (ed.) Logical Issues in Language Acquisition, Foris Publications, Dordrecht, Holland.
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....in the distribution of case coding strategies down the hierarchy. 1 Introduction A central goal of theoretical linguistics is the explanation of the linguistic universals revealed by typological research. The types of explanations sought fall into a range of categories (see, e.g. Hawkins 1988; Hurford 1990; Hawkins 1992) and it is unclear whether there are any underlying principles in common with the various approaches. This paper is part of an attempt to provide a theoretical framework for various kinds of functional typological explanations that is also broadly compatible with the nativist ....
HURFORD, JAMES. 1990. Nativist and functional explanations in language acquisition. In Logical Issues in Language Acquisition, ed. by I.M. Roca, 85--136. Foris Publications.
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Hurford, J. R., Nativist and functional explanations in language acquisition, in Logical Issues in Language Acquisition, Roca, I. M., ed. (Foris, Dordrecht, 1990), pp. 85--136.
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Hurford, J. (1990) Nativist and functional explanations in language acquisition. In: Roca, I. (ed) (1990) Logical Issues in Language Acquisition. London, Foris Publications. pp. 85-136.
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