Game dynamics with learning and evolution of universal grammar

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1093-1118

  Mitchener, W Garrett ^a  

^a Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Evolutionary stability; Language dynamical equation; Learning; Metastrategy; Population game dynamics; Replicator equation; Universal grammar

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GAME; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MUTATION;

ALGORITHMS; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION;

EID: 33947495085     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-006-9165-x     Document Type: Article

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