LING 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Language Change, Null-Subject Language, Code Talker
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Geneological tree suggests that the planet was populated by people have rst developed in africa. Knowledge can accumulate at a very fast rate because of language (picture of origin in africa) The further away you are from the origin (africa) the smaller the number of different language sounds you nd. Regardless of whether mono or polygenesis is right, linguistic diversity arises because languages (or grammars) change over time and from one generation to the next. Changing learning contexts children are imperfect learners, they will develop a system that resembles a system they were exposed to with changes. Changes can accumulate over time and make a language that was extremely different from the original. Transmission: a particular language is acquired (reinvented really) by a particular person in a particular context (time, place, people ) Universal characteristics of this type of system or of acquisition problem. Properties of the learner universal grammar other (e. i. not language speci c strategies)
