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Linguistic evolution through language acquisition /

Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) This groundbreaking study of how children acquire language and the effects on language change over the generations draws on a wide range of examples. The book covers specific syntactic universals and the nature of syntactic change. It reviews the langu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Briscoe, E. J., 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Ted Briscoe
  • Learned systems of arbitrary reference: the foundation of human linguistic uniqueness / Michael Oliphant
  • Bootstrapping grounded word semantics / Luc Steels, Frederic Kaplan
  • Linguistic structure and the evolution of words / Robert Worden
  • Negotiation and acquisition of recursive grammars as a result of competition among exemplars / John Batali
  • Learning, bottlenecks and the evolution of recursive syntax / Simon Kirby
  • Theories of cultural evolution and their application to language change / Partha Niyogi
  • Learning guided evolution of natural language / William J. Turkel
  • Grammatical acquisition and linguistic selection / Ted Briscoe
  • Expression/induction models of language evolution: dimensions and issues / James R. Hurford.