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- 類型：已發表論文
- 日期：2010
摘要
Recent research suggests that 語言 演化 is a process of 文化 change, in which linguistic structures are shaped through repeated cycles of learning and use by domain-general mechanisms. This paper draws out the implications of this viewpoint for understanding the problem of 語言 acquisition, which is cast in a new, and much more tractable, form. In essence, the child faces a problem of induction, where the objective is to coordinate with others (C-induction), rather than to model the structure of the natural world (N-induction). We argue that, of the two, C-induction is dramatically easier. More broadly, we argue that understanding the acquisition of any 文化 form, whether linguistic or otherwise, during development, requires considering the corresponding question of how that 文化 form arose through pr
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