Simulating the evolution of language
Collections of articles of miscellaneous specific interest (00B15) Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to computer science (68-06) Computing methodologies for text processing; mathematical typography (68U15) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to game theory, economics, and finance (91-02) Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to game theory, economics, and finance (91-06) Linguistics (91F20)
This volume is a collection of fifteen articles which deal with the study of language evolution based on computer simulation. After two introductory chapters, three contributions treat the evolution of simple signaling systems with focus on adaptive factors, the evolution of speech systems, and dialect diversity. The emergence of syntax and syntactic universals is considered from the viewpoint of an iterated learning model, the population dynamics of grammar acquisition, and computational as well as experimental studies concerning the role of sequential learning in language evolution. Sensorimotor grounding aspects of language are discussed with reference to symbol grounding and the symbolic theft hypothesis (which assumes that new linguistic categories are acquired by hearsay), as well as the effects of evolutionary language games within a robot setup (a set of `Talking Heads' connected through the Internet). Behavioral and neural factors of language use and their interaction with other behavioral capabilities are focused on in articles which deal with the mirror-system hypothesis for the evolution of the language-ready brain (i.e., speech is derived from an ancient gestural system based on the mirror mechanism), and with a unified simulation scenario for language development, evolution, and historical change. Other papers discuss the role of auto-organization and dynamical processes in the emergence of shared language structures (such as lexicons and grammars), i.e., the way how communication between language users affects the concurrent and interlaced development of categories (meanings) and words (forms), and how such processes can be modeled by corresponding computer simulation experiments. Finally, aspects of primate communication and their social learning patterns in relation to language evolution are discussed.
- Artificial Evolution
- Emergent syntax: The unremitting value of computational modeling for understanding the origins of complex language
- Language structure: psychological and social constraints
- The survival of the smallest: stability conditions for the cultural evolution of compositional language
- Evolution of universal grammar
- A novel clustering method based on quasi-consensus motions of dynamical multiagent systems
- Game dynamics with learning and evolution of universal grammar
- How much does it help to know what she knows you know? An agent-based simulation study
- Language structure: psychological and social constraints
- Evolutionary models of color categorization based on discrimination
- Emergence of communication and language.
- UNRAVELING THE TANGLES OF LANGUAGE EVOLUTION
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2086443 (Why is no real title available?)
- The importance of rapid cultural convergence in the evolution of learned symbolic communication
- Emergent syntax: The unremitting value of computational modeling for understanding the origins of complex language
- Artificial Evolution
- The self-organization of speech sounds
- Logic and social cognition. The facts matter, and so do computational models
- Statistical analysis of discrimination games
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