The computational nature of language learning and evolution /
The introduction of a mathematical and computational framework within which to analyze the interplay between language learning and language evolution.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2006.
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Colección: | Current studies in linguistics series ;
43. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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