How Language Learning and Language Use Create Linguistic Structure

Languages persist through a cycle of learning and use: You learn language immersion in the used your linguistic community, using to communicate, you produce further data, which other people might from turn. change over historical time as result errors innovations these processes use; this article reviews experimental computational methods that have been developed test hypothesis those same use are responsible for creating fundamental structural properties shared by all human languages, including some design features make such powerful tool communication.