Language structure: psychological and social constraints (Q2460193)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5211719
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5211719 |
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Language structure: psychological and social constraints (English)
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14 November 2007
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The authors discuss the notion of a linguistic universal, and possible sources of such invariant properties of natural languages. Focusing on conceptual issues that arise as well as the explanatory potential of horizontal evolution, the authors draw connections to evolutionary game theory. In particular a signaling game is set up, in which every Nash equilibrium amounts to a Voronoi tessellation of the meaning space.
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language universals
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evolutionary game theory
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