Neuroscience & Psychology

How Teens and Adults Really Change Language

▪️For decades, scholars believed children’s speech errors were the seeds of language change, but new research challenges that view. The study argues that everyday language use among adolescents and adults, not children, is the real driver of linguistic evolution.

Children typically recover from their mistakes, which rarely spread, whereas adults adapt and innovate in social contexts where new forms can take hold. This reframing emphasizes the need to study social and cultural dynamics, rather than only acquisition errors, to understand how languages evolve.

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How Teens and Adults Really Change Language

▪️For decades, scholars believed children’s speech errors were the seeds of language change, but new research challenges that view. The study argues that everyday language use among adolescents and adults, not children, is the real driver of linguistic evolution.

Children typically recover from their mistakes, which rarely spread, whereas adults adapt and innovate in social contexts where new forms can take hold. This reframing emphasizes the need to study social and cultural dynamics, rather than only acquisition errors, to understand how languages evolve.

🆔@neurocognitionandlearning

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