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....meaning. Previous studies which investigate the cultural evolution of compositional syntax (for example, 3] and [1] have been criticized because the manner in which agents in the simulations select the hypothesis for the observed data is strongly biased the results are striking yet inevitable [10]. In this section we appeal to a well understood model of induction the Minimum Description Length Principle and outline a novel model hypothesis space which can account for compositional and non compositional languages. The Minimum Description Length Principle. Ranking potential hypotheses ....

B. Tonkes and J. Wiles. Methodological issues in simulating the emergence of language. To appear in a volume arising from the Third Conference on the Evolution of Language, in press.

.... Ultimately, these types of explanation typically derive features of the meaning string mapping from communicative pressures that in uenced our proto human ancestors [4] This paper follows on from recent computational work that takes a di erent approach [5] 6] 7] 8] 9] 10] 11] 12] [13]. Instead of concetrating on the biological evolution of an innate language faculty, this line of research places more explanatory emphasis on languages themselves as adaptive systems. Human languages are arguably unique not only for their compositionality but also in the way they persist over ....

B. Tonkes and J. Wiles, \Methodological issues in simulating the emergence of language," Submitted to the volume arising out of the Third Conference on the Evolution of Language, Paris 2000.

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