Dynamical Grammar Minimalism, Acquisition, and Change

Name: Dynamical Grammar Minimalism, Acquisition, and Change
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ISBN: 9780198700258

ISBN-10: 0198700253

ISBN-13: 9780198700258

Edition: 2003

Authors: Peter W. Culicover, Andrzej Nowak

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Dynamical Grammar explores the consequences for language acquisition, language evolution, and linguistic theory of taking the underlying architecture of the language faculty to be that of a dynamical system. The authors investigate whether it is possible for a complex adaptive system to identify the categories, structures, and rules of a language given access only to instances of grammatical utterances of that language. The linguistic tradition says that this is impossible, but there is a growing body of literature in psychology and computer science arguing that grammar can be uncovered using purely statistical techniques applied to the distribution of forms in a string of words. The book…

Book details

List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/27/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 346
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English




Foundations



The Dynamical Perspective



Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory



Simulations



The Computational Simulation of Language Acquisition: Aqui



Computational Simulation of Language Acquisition: CAMiLLe



Experiments with CAMiLLe



Language change



Grammar



Concrete Minimalism


Bibliography


Index