Language learning, power laws, and sexual selection

Mind and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-76

  Briscoe, Ted ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diathesis alternation; Evolutionary linguistics; Iterated learning model; Small world distribution; Zipf curve

Indexed keywords

EID: 43949127051     PISSN: 15937879     EISSN: 18601839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11299-007-0040-8     Document Type: Article

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