Language Evolution and Computation Bibliography

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Alona Soschen
2008
Syntax, a System of Efficient Growth
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, pages 291-298, 2008
General physical laws are evident as universal syntactic principles governing a computational system of the human language. The optimal space filling condition has to be satisfied in every system of efficient growth. This principle can be attested in syntax, exemplified as the ...MORE ⇓
General physical laws are evident as universal syntactic principles governing a computational system of the human language. The optimal space filling condition has to be satisfied in every system of efficient growth. This principle can be attested in syntax, exemplified as the Fibonacci (Fib)-patterns where each new term is the sum of the two that precede it. It will be shown that this rule accounts for the essential features of syntactic trees: limitations imposed on the number of arguments, and phase formation in derivations. The article provides a functional explanation of binary branching, labeling, and the properties of External and Internal Merge.