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The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Current Studies in Linguistics SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (503 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262280686
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Computational Nature of Language Learning and EvolutionDDC classification:
  • 938.0072
LOC classification:
  • P118.N57 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 Language -- Chapter 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.
Summary: The introduction of a mathematical and computational framework within which to analyze the interplay between language learning and language evolution.
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Intro -- 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 Language -- Chapter 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.

The introduction of a mathematical and computational framework within which to analyze the interplay between language learning and language evolution.

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