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Authoritative: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X08005268   (Publisher's PDF... likely be available here.)

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Abstract

Though we agree with their argument that language is shaped by domain-general learning processes, Christiansen & Chater (C&C) neglect to detail how the development of these processes shapes language change. We discuss a number of examples that show how developmental processes at multiple levels and timescales are critical to understanding the origin of domain-general mechanisms that shape language evolution.

@article{toscano08BBScomments,
  author={Joseph C. Toscano and Lynn K. Perry and Kathryn L. Mueller and Allison F. Bean and Marcus E. Galle and Larissa K. Samuelson},
  title={Language as shaped by the brain; the brain as shaped by development},
  journal={Behavioral and Brain Sciences},
  year={2008},
  volume={31},
  number={5},
  pages={535-536},
  doi={10.1017/S0140525X08005268},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/toscano08BBScomments.html}
}