Computational and evolutionary aspects of language Export

@article{citeulike:862630, abstract = {Language is our legacy. It is the main evolutionary contribution of humans, and perhaps the most interesting trait that has emerged in the past 500 million years. Understanding how darwinian evolution gives rise to human language requires the integration of formal language theory, learning theory and evolutionary dynamics. Formal language theory provides a mathematical description of language and grammar. Learning theory formalizes the task of language acquisition—it can be shown that no procedure can learn an unrestricted set of languages. Universal grammar specifies the restricted set of languages learnable by the human brain. Evolutionary dynamics can be formulated to describe the cultural evolution of language and the biological evolution of universal grammar.}, address = {Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA. nowak@ias.edu}, author = {Nowak, Martin A. and Komarova, Natalia L. and Niyogi, Partha}, citeulike-article-id = {862630}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature00771}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/nowak02computationalAnd.html}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature00771}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12050656}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=12050656}, doi = {10.1038/nature00771}, issn = {0028-0836}, journal = {Nature}, keywords = {communication, dynamical\_system, evolutionaly\_dynamics, language}, month = {June}, number = {6889}, pages = {611--617}, posted-at = {2009-02-10 09:21:35}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Nature Publishing Group}, title = {Computational and evolutionary aspects of language}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature00771}, volume = {417}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:862630 L3 - citeulike-article-id:862630 N2 - Language is our legacy. It is the main evolutionary contribution of humans, and perhaps the most interesting trait that has emerged in the past 500 million years. Understanding how darwinian evolution gives rise to human language requires the integration of formal language theory, learning theory and evolutionary dynamics. Formal language theory provides a mathematical description of language and grammar. Learning theory formalizes the task of language acquisition—it can be shown that no procedure can learn an unrestricted set of languages. Universal grammar specifies the restricted set of languages learnable by the human brain. Evolutionary dynamics can be formulated to describe the cultural evolution of language and the biological evolution of universal grammar. IS - 6889 JF - Nature SN - 0028-0836 AD - Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA. nowak@ias.edu EP - 617 TI - Computational and evolutionary aspects of language PB - Nature Publishing Group VL - 417 SP - 611 KW - communication KW - dynamical_system KW - evolutionaly_dynamics KW - language AU - Nowak, Martin AU - Komarova, Natalia AU - Niyogi, Partha PY - 2002/06/06/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature00771 ER -