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Linguistic evolution through language acquisition

Author: E J Briscoe
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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A study of how children acquire language and how this affects language change over generations.

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: E J Briscoe
ISBN: 0521662990 9780521662994
OCLC Number: 48753792
Description: vii, 349 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Ted Briscoe --
Learned systems of arbitrary reference: the foundation of human linguistic uniqueness / Michael Oliphant --
Bootstrapping grounded word semantics / Luc Steels, Frederic Kaplan --
Linguistic structure and the evolution of words / Robert Worden --
Negotiation and acquisition of recursive grammars as a result of competition among exemplars / John Batali --
Learning, bottlenecks and the evolution of recursive syntax / Simon Kirby --
Theories of cultural evolution and their application to language change / Partha Niyogi --
Learning guided evolution of natural language / William J. Turkel --
Grammatical acquisition and linguistic selection / Ted Briscoe --
Expression/induction models of language evolution: dimensions and issues / James R. Hurford.
Responsibility: edited by Ted Briscoe.
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'The most important contribution of this book lies in the many detailed examples of the emergence of structured representations that it offers.' Journal of Linguistics

 
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