Linguistic attractors : the cognitive dynamics of language acquisition and change / David L. Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, D. L.

Series:

Human cognitive processing ; v. 2.

Human cognitive processing ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psycholinguistics.

Computational linguistics.

Linguistic change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The interdisciplinary linguistic attractor model portrays language processing as linked sequences of fractal sets, and examines the changing dynamics of such sets for individuals as well as the speech community they comprise. Its motivation stems from human anatomic constraints and several artificial neural network approaches. It uses general computation theory to: (1) demonstrate the capacity of Cantor-like fractal sets to perform as Turing Machines; (2) better distinguish between models that simply match outputs (emulation) and models that match both outputs and internal dynamics (

Contents:

Linguistic Attractors; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction. Abstractions, Universals, Systems, and Attractors; Chapter 1. Human Architecture: Physical Constraints and Special Accommodations; Chapter 2. Possible Neural Network Implementations: General Network Properties and Requirements for Computation; Chapter 3. Representations; Chapter 4. Attractor Dynamics on Semantic Fields; Chapter 5. Toward an Attractor Grammar; Chapter 6. The Dynamics of Language Change: Beowulf, the Tatian, and German Biblical Texts; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references ([329]-353) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-16355-8

9786612163555

90-272-9938-2

OCLC:

70764678