Language as shaped by the brain¶
Christiansen, M. H., & Chater, N. (2008). Language as shaped by the brain. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31(5), 489-509.
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- Coevolution
- Linguistics & cognition: Languages and the minds that learn them adapt to each other across generations — learnability biases in learners shape which grammatical structures survive transmission, while the surviving structures shape the cognition of the next generation of learners, a feedback loop Christiansen and Chater (2008) framed as language being shaped by the brain rather than the brain by language.
This sourceArgues that language is shaped by severe selectional pressure from successive generations of learners/users — apparently arbitrary linguistic structure results from general learning and processing biases — so grammars adapt to the brain rather than the brain to language.
- Linguistics & cognition: Languages and the minds that learn them adapt to each other across generations — learnability biases in learners shape which grammatical structures survive transmission, while the surviving structures shape the cognition of the next generation of learners, a feedback loop Christiansen and Chater (2008) framed as language being shaped by the brain rather than the brain by language.
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