Linguistic Evolution Through Language Acquisition (Hardcover)

1. Introduction Ted Briscoe; 2. Learned systems of arbitrary reference: the foundation of human linguistic uniqueness Michael Oliphant; 3. Bootstrapping grounded word semantics Luc Steels; 4. Linguistic structure and the evolution of words Robert Worden; 5. The negotiation and acquisition of recursive grammars as a result of competition among exemplars John Batali; 6. Learning, bottlenecks and the evolution of recursive syntax Simon Kirby; 7. Theories of cultural evolution and their application to language change Partha Niyogi; 8. The learning guided evolution of natural language William J. Turkel; 9. Grammatical acquisition and linguistic selection Ted Briscoe; 10. Expression/induction models of language evolution: dimensions and issues James R. Hurford.