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Changing Minds Changing Tools : From Learning Theory to Language Acquisition to Language Change /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
The MIT Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The Web in the Spider: Associative Learning Theory
- From Associative Learning to Language Structure
- What Are the Nodes? Unitization and Configural Learning vs. Selective Attention
- Bayes, Rationality, and Rashionality
- Continuous Dimensions and Distributional Learning
- Schematic Structure, Hebbian Learning, and Semantic Change
- Learning Paradigmatic Structure
- The Interplay of Syntagmatic, Schematic, and Paradigmatic Structure
- Automatization and Sound Change
- Bringing It All Together.