Linguistic Attractors: The Cognitive Dynamics of Language Acquisition and Change

Paul Meara, David L. Cooper

The Modern Language Review · 2001 · 37 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

1. Preface 2. Introduction: Abstractions, Universals, Systems and Attractors 3. 1. Human Architecture: Physical Constraints ans Special Accomodations 4. 2. Possible Neutral Network Implemantations: General Network Properties and Requirements for Computation 5. 3. Representations 6. 4. Attractor Dynamics on Semantic Fields 7. 5. Towards an Attractor Grammar 8. 6. The Dynamics of Language Change: Beowulf, the Tatian, and German Biblical Texts 9. References 10. Index