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1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankLINGUISTICEVOLUTIONTHROUGHLANGUAGEACQUISITIONThisisanewandgroundbreakingstudyofhowchildrenacquirelanguageandhowthisaffectslanguagechangeoverthegenerations.Writtenbyaninternationalteamofexperts,thevolumepro-ceedsfromthebasisthatweshouldaddressnotonlythelanguagefacu

2、ltypersewithintheframeworkofevolutionarytheory,butalsotheoriginsandsubsequentdevelopmentoflanguagesthemselves;languagesevolveviaculturalratherthanbiologicaltransmissiononahistoricalratherthangenetictimescale.Thebookisdistinctiveinutilizingcomputationalsimulationandmodelingtohelpensurethattheth

3、eoriesconstructedarecompleteandprecise.Drawingonawiderangeofexamples,thebookcoversthewhyandhowofspecificsyntacticuniversals,thenatureofsyntacticchange,thelanguage-learningmechanismsneededtoacquireanexistinglinguisticsystemaccuratelyandtoimposefurtherstructureonanemergingsystem,andtheevolutionof

4、language(s)inrelationtothislearningmechanism.isLecturerintheComputerLaboratoryattheUni-versityofCambridge.Hisresearchinterestsincludecomputationalandtheoreticallinguistics,andautomatedspeechandlanguageprocessing.Hehaspublishedaroundfiftyresearcharticles.LINGUISTICEVOLUTIONTHROUGHLANGU

5、AGEACQUISITIONEDITEDBYTEDBRISCOEUniversityofCambridgeThePittBuilding,TrumpingtonStreet,Cambridge,UnitedKingdomTheEdinburghBuilding,CambridgeCB22RU,UK40West20thStreet,NewYork,NY10011-4211,USA477WilliamstownRoad,PortMe

6、lbourne,VIC3207,AustraliaRuizdeAlarcón13,28014Madrid,SpainDockHouse,TheWaterfront,CapeTown8001,SouthAfricahttp://www.cambridge.org©CambridgeUniversityPress2004Firstpublishedinprintedformat2002ISBN0-511-02020-1eBook(netLibrary)ISBN0-521-66299-0hardbackContentsListofcontributorspageviiIntroduct

7、ionTedBriscoeLearnedsystemsofarbitraryreference:ThefoundationofhumanlinguisticuniquenessMichaelOliphantBootstrappinggroundedwordsemanticsLucSteelsandFredericKaplanLinguisticstructureandtheevolutionofwordsRobertWordenThenegoti