영문목차
Contents
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
I The Problem 1
1 Introduction 3
II Language Learning 47
2 Language Acquisition: The Problem of Inductive Inference 49
3 Language Acquisition: A Linguistic Treatment 83
4 Language Acquisition: Memoryless Learning 117
III Language Change 153
5 Language Change: A Preliminary Model 155
6 Language Change: Multiple Languages 187
7 An Application to Portuguese 233
8 An Application to Chinese Phonology 251
9 A Model of Cultural Evolution and Its Application to Language 275
10 Variations and Case Studies 305
IV The Origin of Language 339
11 The Origin of Communicative Systems: Communicative Efficiency 341
12 The Origin of Communicative Systems: Linguistic Coherence and Communicative Fitness 375
13 The Origin of Communicative Systems: Linguistic Coherence and Social Learning 405
V Conclusions 443
14 Conclusions 445
Bibliography 459
Index 479