Linguistic Evolution through Language Acquisition.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Briscoe, Ted
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Anthropological linguistics.
Evolution.
Language acquisition.
anthropological linguistics.
Anthropological linguistics
Evolution
Language acquisition
Évolution du langage.
Acquisition du langage.
Ethnolinguistique.
Variation de langage.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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