Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence (Live at Mason)
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The Importance of Regular Verbs in Language Learning
i think the reason for that is, i might even invoked darwin more than venha. In the generation to generation transmission process of an irregular verb and you regular verb, has to be memorized. And so you've got an erosion of the stock of irregular verbs as they get filtered through the mind children memorizing them. So dreamt becomes dreamed, for instance. Dreamt reram is prettier. The language itself spontaneously evolves with some balance. There are trade offs. Their multi pll tugs pushes and pulls.
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