Language structure: psychological and social constraints

DOI10.1007/S11229-006-9073-5MaRDI QIDQ2460193zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gerhard Jäger, Robert van Rooij

Publication date 14 November 2007

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-006-9073-5

zbMATH Keywords

evolutionary game theorylanguage universals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Evolutionary games (91A22) Applications of game theory (91A80) Memory and learning in psychology (91E40) Mathematical psychology (91E99)

Review text

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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