Language acquisition, change and emergence :essays in evolutionary linguistics /edited by James W. Minett, William S. Y. Wang. --City University of Hong Kong Press, 2005. –(41.1/L287)

Contents

 Contents:

1.       Introduction  3

2.       Speech and Language-A Human Trait Defined by Molecular Genetics  21

3.       Conceptual Complexity and the Brain: Understanding Language Orgins  47

4.       The Emergence of Grammar from Perspective  95

5.       Polygenesis of Liguistic Strategies: A Scenario for the Emergence of Languages  153

6.       Multiple-cue Intergration in Language Acquistion: A Connectionist Model of Speech Segmentation and Rule-like Behavior  205

7.       Unsupervised Lexical learning as Inductive Inference via Compression  251

8.       The Orgin of Liguistic Irregularity  297

9.       The Language Organism: The Leiden Theory of Language Evolution  331

10.   Taxonomy, Typology and Historical Linguistics  341

11.   Modeling Language Evolution  369

12.   Language and Complexity  389

13.   Language Acquistion as a Complex Adaptive System  411

14.   How Many Meanings Does a Word Have? Meaning Estimation in Chinese and English  437

15.   Typology and Complexity  465

16.   Creoles and Complexity  495