On the acquisition and evolution of compositional languages: Sparse input and the productive creativity of children

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 325-346

  Vogt, Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compositionality; Evolution of language; Iterated learning; Language acquisition; Language games

Indexed keywords

EID: 29344434078     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: 17412633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/105971230501300403     Document Type: Article

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