Changing Minds Changing Tools (English, Vsevolod Kapatsinski)

About the Book

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 as learning in other domains and well described by associative models. Synthesizing research in domain-general learning theory as it relates to language a…

ISBN: 9780262037860