Dynamical Grammar: Minimalism, Acquisition, and Change: 2 (Foundations of Syntax) - Hardcover

Culicover, Peter W.; Nowak, Andrzej

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198700261 ISBN 13: 9780198700265

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2003

Synopsis

This text explores the consequences for language acquisition, evolution and theory of taking the underlying architecture of the language faculty to be that of a dynamical system and examines whether a complex adaptive system can identify the categories, structures and rules of a language given access only to instances of grammatical utterances.

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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: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0198700261
• ISBN 13: 9780198700265
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 352