Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I The Problem
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Part II Language Learning
  • Chapter 2 Language Acquisition: The Problem of Inductive Inference
  • Chapter 3 Language Acquisition: A Linguistic Treatment
  • Chapter 4 Language Acquisition: Memoryless Learning
  • Part III Language Change
  • Chapter 5 Language Change: A Preliminary Model
  • Chapter 6 Language Change: Multiple Languages
  • Chapter 7 An Application to Portuguese
  • Chapter 8 An Application to Chinese Phonology
  • Chapter 9 A Model of Cultural Evolution and Its Application to LanguageChapter 10 Variations and Case Studies
  • Part IV The Origin of Language
  • Chapter 11 The Origin of Communicative Systems: Communicative Efficiency
  • Chapter 12 The Origin of Communicative Systems: Linguistic Coherence and Communicative Fitness
  • Chapter 13 The Origin of Communicative Systems: Linguistic Coherence and Social Learning
  • Part V Conclusions
  • Chapter 14 Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index