A statistical-physics approach to language acquisition and language change

Marzio Cassandro, Pierre Collet, Antonio Galves and Charlotte Galves

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1999, vol. 263, issue 1, 427-437

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to explain why Statistical Physics can help understanding two related linguistic questions. The first question is how to model first language acquisition by a child. The second question is how language change proceeds in time.

Keywords: grammar identification; language change; Gibbs states; maximum likelihood; entropy; simulated annealing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00503-2

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