• DOI:10.7551/mitpress/2024.001.0001
Corpus ID: 15769193

The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution

@inproceedings{Niyogi2006TheCN,
  title={The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution},
  author={P. Niyogi},
  year={2006}
}

• P. Niyogi
• Published 2006
• Computer Science

The nature of the interplay between language learning and the evolution of a language over generational time is subtle. We can observe the learning of language by children and marvel at the phenomenon of language acquisition; the evolution of a language, however, is not so directly experienced. Language learning by children is robust and reliable, but it cannot be perfect or languages would never change -- and English, for example, would not have evolved from the language of the Anglo-Saxon… Expand

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