Linguistic attractors : the cognitive dynamics of language acquisition and change /
The interdisciplinary linguistic attractor model portrays language processing as linked sequences of fractal sets, and examines the changing dynamics of such sets for individuals as well as the speech community they comprise. Its motivation stems from human anatomic constraints and several artificia...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
[1999].
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Series: | Human cognitive processing ;
v. 2. |
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Linguistic Attractors; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction. Abstractions, Universals, Systems, and Attractors; Chapter 1. Human Architecture: Physical Constraints and Special Accommodations; Chapter 2. Possible Neural Network Implementations: General Network Properties and Requirements for Computation; Chapter 3. Representations; Chapter 4. Attractor Dynamics on Semantic Fields; Chapter 5. Toward an Attractor Grammar; Chapter 6. The Dynamics of Language Change: Beowulf, the Tatian, and German Biblical Texts; References; Index.