The introduction of a mathematical and computational framework within which to analyze the interplay between language learning and language evolution.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A book that uses domain-general learning theory to explain recurrent trajectories of language change. In this book, Vsevolod Kapatsinski argues that language acquisition -- often approached as an isolated domain, subject to its own laws and mechanisms -- is simply learning, subject to the same laws as learning in other domains and well described by associative models. Synthesizing research in d…