Language Development: Evolutionary Theories

Mark Atkinson; Kenny Smith

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Language Development: Evolutionary Theories

Mark Atkinson^*, Kenny Smith

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Accounts of language development can be broadly divided into two opposing camps: nativist theories and statistical learning accounts. We review the claims made by each about the role of the socially acquired linguistic data in language acquisition and consider the implications of each account on the likely evolutionary history of the language-learning capacity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition
Publisher	Elsevier Inc.
Pages	319-323
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9780080970875
ISBN (Print)	9780080970868
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.23124-3
Publication status	Published - 26 Mar 2015

Keywords

Communication
Cultural evolution
Cultural transmission
Evolutionary theory
Language acquisition
Language development
Language evolution
Linguistic nativism
Natural selection
Social learning
Statistical learning
Universal Grammar

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