A statistical-physics approach to language acquisition and language change

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 263, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 427-437

  Cassandro, Marzio ^a   Collet, Pierre ^b   Galves, Antonio ^c   Galves, Charlotte ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^b CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Entropy; Gibbs states; Grammar identification; Language change; Maximum likelihood; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

EID: 4243901550     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00503-2     Document Type: Article

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