This paper is part of an ongoing research effort (Briscoe, 1997, 1998, 1999a,b,c,d) to develop a formal model of language acquisition, demonstrate that an innate language acquisition device could have coevolved with human (proto)language(s) given plausible assumptions, and explore the consequences of the resulting model of both language and the language faculty for theories of language change. The paper builds on the earlier work by examining the model's ability to account for the process of creolization (Bickerton, 1981; 1984; 1988; Roberts, 1998) within a selectionist theory of language change.
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