Diachronic Change: Early versus Late Acquisition

Autor/in	Weerman, Fred
Titel	Diachronic Change: Early versus Late Acquisition
Quelle	In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 14 (2011) 2, S.149-151 (3 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1366-7289
DOI	10.1017/S1366728910000581
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Language Research; Language Variation; Old English; Language Acquisition; Second Language Learning; Native Language; Grammar; Linguistic Input; Parent Child Relationship; Diachronic Linguistics; Indo European Languages + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachforschung; Sprachenvielfalt; Altenglisch; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Grammatik; Sprachbildung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Linguistics; Diachronische Sprachbetrachtung; Historische Linguistik; Indoeuropäisch
Abstract	There is a long linguistic tradition in which language change is explained in terms of first language acquisition. In this tradition, children are considered to be the agents of language change, or at least the agents of changes in the underlying grammar. Since the early 1980s, this has been formulated in the (generative) terminology in terms of parameters set by children: whereas an older generation acquires one particular setting of a parameter (during childhood), a next generation of L1 children may set a parameter differently, based on the input of their parents, and this may lead to a different output. For obvious reasons this argumentation had to be built on theoretical rather than empirical work on language acquisition. There are no children acquiring Old English or Middle Dutch, and, in fact, the field of acquisition research was until recently much less developed and very often not focused on the type of facts that happened to play a role in discussions of language change. (As Provided).
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