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TABLE OF CONTENTS

I The Problem 5
1 Introduction 7

II Language Learning 51
2 Language Acquisition - Induction 53
3 Language Acquisition - Linguistics I 89
4 Language Acquisition - Linguistics II 127

III Language Change 163
5 Language Change - A Preliminary Model 165
6 Language Change - n Languages 197
7 An Application to Portuguese 243
8 An Application to Chinese 261
9 Cultural Evolution 285
10 Variations and Case Studies 317

IV The Origin of Language 353
11 Communicative EĈiency 355
12 Linguistic Coherence and Communicative Fitness 389
13 Linguistic Coherence and Social Learning 421

V Conclusions 459
14 Conclusions 461

Preface

This monograph explores the interplay between learning and evolution in the context of linguistic systems. For several decades now, the process of language acquisition has been conceptualized as a procedure that maps lin- guistic experience onto linguistic knowledge. If linguistic knowledge is char- acterized in computational terms as a formal grammar and the mapping procedure is algorithmic, this conceptualization admits computational and mathematical modes of inquiry into language learning. Indeed, such a view is implicit in most modern approaches to the subject in linguistics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence.

Now learning (acquisition) is the mechanism by which language is trans- mitted from old speakers to new. Therefore, the evolution of language over generational time in linguistic populations will depend upon the learning procedure used by the individuals in it. Yet the interplay between learn- ing by the individual and evolution of the population can be quite subtle. We need tools to reason about the phenomena and elucidate the precise na- ture of the relationships involved. To this end, this monograph presents a framework in which to conduct such an analysis.

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@book{niyogi_book,
  author={Partha Niyogi},
  title={The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution},
  year={2006},
  month={April},
  address={Cambridge, MA},
  publisher={MIT Press},
  url={http://groups.lis.illinois.edu/amag/langev/paper/niyogi_book.html}
}

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