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Direct linkGriffiths, Thomas L.; Kalish, Michael L. – Cognitive Science, 2007
Languages are transmitted from person to person and generation to generation via a process of iterated learning: people learn a language from other people who once learned that language themselves. We analyze the consequences of iterated learning for learning algorithms based on the principles of Bayesian inference, assuming that learners compute…
Descriptors: Probability, Diachronic Linguistics, Statistical Inference, Language Universals
