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Linguistic Evolution through Language Acquisition.
This is a new and groundbreaking study of how children acquire language and how this affects language change over the generations. The book is written by an international team of experts and is distinctive in utilizing computational simulation and modeling to help ensure the theories constructed are...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Learned systems of arbitrary reference: The foundation of human linguistic uniqueness; 3 Bootstrapping grounded word semantics; 4 Linguistic structure and the evolution of words; 5 The negotiation and acquisition of recursive grammars as a result of competition among exemplars; 6 Learning, bottlenecks and the evolution of recursive syntax; 7 Theories of cultural evolution and their application to language change; 8 The learning guided evolution of natural language; 9 Grammatical acquisition and linguistic selection.