Dynamical Grammar: Minimalism, Acquisition, and Change - Hardcover

Culicover, Peter W.; Nowak, Andrzej

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198700261 ISBN 13: 9780198700265

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2003

Synopsis

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 complex adaptive dynamical system. It contains the first results of a new and complex model of language acquisition which the authors have developed to measure how far language input is reflected in language output and thereby get a better idea of just how far the human language faculty is hard-wired.

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About the Author

Peter W. Culicover is currently the Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Director of the Center for Cognitive Science at the Ohio State University. His current research is concerned with the architecture of the language faculty and its role in the dynamical aspects of language. Andrzej Nowak is Associate Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University. His research interests are modeling and computer simulation of social processes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198700261
• ISBN 13: 9780198700265
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352