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
Summary
The introduction of a mathematical and computational framework within which to analyze the interplay between language learning and language evolution
Analysis
LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/Language Acquisition
COMPUTER SCIENCE/Computational Linguistics
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-478) and index
Notes
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