| dc.creator |
LIGHTFOOT David |
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| dc.date |
2000 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2013-05-30T12:30:41Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2013-05-30T12:30:41Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2013-05-30 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44502000000300003 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&genre=article&issn=01024450&date=2000&volume=16&issue=spe&spage=81 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/5247 |
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| dc.description |
This paper reviews the problems of the deterministic and predictive view of language change initiated by nineteenth century linguists and shows that such a view is still present in many analyses proposed by twentieth century linguists. As an alternative to such a view, the paper discusses an approach along the lines of Niyogi and Berwick (1997), which takes the explanation for long-term tendencies to be a function of the architecture of UG and the learning procedure and of the way in which populations of speakers behave. |
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| dc.publisher |
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - PUC-SP |
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| dc.source |
DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada |
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| dc.subject |
Historical Linguistics |
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| dc.subject |
Langue Change |
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| dc.subject |
Language Acquisition |
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| dc.subject |
Dynamic Systems |
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| dc.title |
How long was the nineteenth century? |
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