Ebook: Linguistic attractors : the cognitive dynamics of language acquisition and change
Author: D L Cooper
- Series: Human cognitive processing v. 2
- Year: 1999
- Publisher: J. Benjamins Pub. Co
- City: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa
- Language: English
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The interdisciplinary linguistic attractor model portrays language processing as linked sequences of fractal sets, and examines the changing dynamics of such sets for individuals as well as the speech community they comprise. Its motivation stems from human anatomic constraints and several artificial neural network approaches. It uses general computation theory to: (1) demonstrate the capacity of Cantor-like fractalRead more...