Hurford, Jim (1998) `Introduction: the emergence of syntax' in Jim Hurford, Michael Studdert-Kennedy and Chris Knight (ed.), Approaches to the Evolution of Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 299--304. Home/Search Document Not in Database Summary Related Articles Check |
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Grammatical Acquisition: Inductive Bias and Coevolution of.. - Briscoe (2000) (4 citations) (Correct)
....on to develop an account of language very similar to that taken here. The earliest post generative proposals that languages be viewed as adaptive systems of which I am aware are Lindblom (1986) and Hurford (1987) though this position is articulated far more clearly in more recent work such as Hurford (1999) Kirby (1999) Lindblom (1998), and Nettle (1999) Though the view that languages evolve has a generally bad press in linguistic theory, it is worth reconsidering as the neo Darwinian synthesis and subsequent analytic and algorithmic thinking about evolution and dynamical systems makes available a panoply of new perspectives ....
Hurford, Jim (1998) `Introduction: the emergence of syntax' in Jim Hurford, Michael Studdert-Kennedy and Chris Knight (ed.), Approaches to the Evolution of Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 299--304.
Grammatical Acquisition and Linguistic Selection - Briscoe (1999) (1 citation) (Correct)
....Taylor, 1997) Differential learnability of grammatical variants, on the basis of learners exposure to triggering data from varying grammatical sources, causes change. Language can be viewed as a dynamic system which adapts to its niche of human language learners and users (e.g. Cziko, 1995; Hurford, 1987; 1998; Keller, 1994) Thus, language itself is evolving, on a historical timescale, and the primary source of linguistic selection is the language acquisition bottleneck through which successful grammatical forms must pass repeatedly with each generation of new language learners. Under this view, ....
Hurford, J. (1998) `Introduction: the emergence of syntax' in Hurford, J., StuddertKennedy, M., and Knight, C. (ed.), Approaches to the Evolution of Language, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 299--304.
Grammatical Acquisition: Coevolution of Language and the Language .. - Briscoe (1998) (2 citations) (Correct)
.... that the LAD is adaptive and has been selected for via biological evolution in the hominid line (e.g. Pinker and Bloom, 1990; Newmeyer, 1991, 1992) But secondly, language itself can be viewed as a dynamic system which adapts to its niche of human language learners and users (e.g. Cziko, 1995; Hurford, 1987; 1998; Keller, 1994) In this second view, 3 Muller, Schleicher and other 19th century linguists speculated that languages evolved according to Darwinian theory, and Darwin (1871) endorsed the idea, quoting with approval from Muller: A struggle for life is constantly going on amongst the words and ....
Hurford, J. (1998) `Introduction: the emergence of syntax' in Hurford, J., StuddertKennedy, M., and Knight, C. (ed.), Approaches to the Evolution of Language, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 299--304.
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