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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Niyogi, Partha. Computational nature of language learning and evolution. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006 (OCoLC)607838940 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Partha Niyogi |
| ISBN: | 0262140942 9780262140942 9780262513395 0262513390 |
| OCLC Number: | 62331114 |
| Description: | xviii, 482 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | I. The problem -- Introduction -- II. Language learning -- Language acquisition: the problem of inductive inference -- Language acquisition: a linguistic treatment -- Language acquisition: memoryless learning -- III. Language change -- Language change: a preliminary model -- Language change: multiple languages -- An application to Portuguese -- An application to Chinese phonology -- A model of cultural evolution and its application to language -- Variations and case studies -- IV. The origin of language -- The origin of communicative systems: communicative efficiency -- The origin of communicative systems: linguistic coherence and communicative fitness -- The origin of communicative systems: linguistic coherence and social learning -- V. Conclusions. |
| Series Title: | Current studies in linguistics series, 43. |
| Responsibility: | Partha Niyogi. |
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"A thoughtful and original analysis of important problems in the history, evolution, and acquisition of language." --Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of The Language Instinct, Words and Rules, How the Mind Works, and The Blank Slate "Partha Niyogi introduces new perspectives on the link between language acquisition and language change across generations. He theorizes with a mathematician's rigor, generalizes across biological, political, and cultural distinctions, and offers intriguing simulations." --David W. Lightfoot, Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University, and Assistant Director, National Science Foundation "A study of the relationship between language learning by individuals and the evolution of language gives rise to a host of issues, all of them controversial. Niyogi has first provided a lucid discussion of many of these issues and then suggested a very interesting formal and computational model, based primarily on a distribution over the grammars of a population of learners. Linguists and computational linguists of different persuasions will find this book very rewarding." --Aravind K. Joshi, Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania "Biological evolution can only be understood by thinking in terms of populations. This book helps us to think in terms of linguistic populations. The vast array of examples and models offers a wealth of tools for understanding the dynamics of the subtle interplay between language evolution and language learning." --Karl Sigmund, Faculty for Mathematics, University of Vienna Read more...
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- Language acquisition.
- Language and languages -- Origin.
- Computational linguistics.
- Linguistic change.
- Multilingualism.
- Language and culture.
- Langage -- Acquisition.
- Langage et langues -- Origines.
- Linguistique informatique.
- Changement linguistique.
- Multilinguisme.
- Langage et culture.
- Taalverwerving.
- Mathematische linguïstiek.
- Acquisition du langage.
- Origine du langage.
- Variation de langage.
- Linguistique computationnelle.
- Sprachursprung.
- Linguistische Datenverarbeitung.
- Spracherwerb.
- Sprachentwicklung.
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