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The Importance of Rapid Cultural Convergence in the Evolution of.. - Smith (2001) (1 citation) (Correct)
....our ancestors resulted in selection for the mental apparatus required for the cultural evolution of language to begin. Recent work by Oliphant [6, 7] building on pioneering work by Hurford [2] focuses on the more basic issue of the emergence of arbitrary and conventionalised word meaning (see [4] for an alternative approach to a similar issue) Oliphant works within the cultural adaptation framework and makes two claims. Firstly, human language is the only learned symbolic communication system. Secondly, language is unique in this respect due to the human capacity to read the ....
N.L. Komarova and M.A. Nowak. The evolutionary dynamics of the lexical matrix. To appear in Bull. Math. Biol.
Optimizing the Mutual Intelligibility of Linguistic Agents.. - Komarova, Niyogi Self-citation (Komarova) (Correct)
....For instance, it often makes sense to talk about a lexical matrix as a formal description of human mental vocabularies. It is introduced to describe the arbitrary relations between discrete words and discrete concepts of human languages ( Hurford 1989] Miller 1996] Regier et al. 2001] [Komarova Nowak 2001]) Each column of the lexical matrix corresponds to a particular word meaning (or concept) each row corresponds to a particular word form (or word image) In the Saussurean terminology of arbitrary sign, the lexical matrix provides the link between signifie and signifiant ( Saussure 1983] An ....
....Cheney Seyfarth 1990] A classic example of this is alarm calls in primates. There are a finite number of referents that are coded using acoustic signals and decoded appropriately by recipients. Infinite association matrices can be used as a description of human languages ( Nowak et al. 2001] [Komarova et al. 2001]) Human grammars mediate a complex mapping between form and meaning. There, the space of possible signals is the set of all strings (sentences) over a finite syntactic alphabet and the set of possible meanings is the set of all strings over some semantic alphabet. Most crucially, the sets of ....
Komarova, N.L. & Nowak, M.A. (2001) Evolutionary dynamics of the lexical matrix, Bull. Math. Biol., 63(3), pp. 451--485.
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