Facebook
Instagram
X
LinkedIn
Weibo
WeChat
YouTube
RedNoteLanguage Acquisition, Change and Emergence—Essays in Evolutionary Linguistics
This volume is a collection of essays by noted researchers from diverse fields that deals with a broad spectrum of issues in the study of language evolution. The principle topics addressed here include:
- the genetic and cognitive bases for the phylogenetic emergence of language;
- several distinct accounts of the underlying cognitive processes by which children learn to acquire language;
- a critique of the methods employed by historical linguists in the last century;
- the modeling of language evolution using mathematical and computational techniques;
- discussions on the complexity of language.
Errata for the book
Chap. 13
p.397, bottom line: change“Sumerian”to“Samoyed.”
*Available on Amazon China
1. Introduction
Part 1 — Language Emergence
2. Speech and language — A human trait defined by molecular
genetics
3. Conceptual complexity and the brain: Understanding language
origins
4. The emergence of grammar from perspective
5. Polygenesis of linguistic strategies: A scenario for the emergence of
languages
Part 2 — Language Acquisition
6. Multiple-cue integration in language acquisition: A connectionist
model of speech segmentation and rule-like behavior
7. Unsupervised lexical learning as inductive inference via compression
8. The origin of linguistic irregularity
Part 3 — Language Change
9. The language organism: The Leiden theory of language evolution
10. Taxonomy, typology and historical linguistics
11. Modeling language evolution
Part 4 — Language and Complexity
12. Language and complexity
13. Language acquisition as a complex adaptive system
14. How many meanings does a word have? Meaning estimation in
Chinese and English
15. Typology and complexity