J. R. Hurford, \Expression/induction models of language evolution: Dimensions and issues," In Briscoe [23]. Home/Search Document Not in Database Summary Related Articles Check |
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Spontaneous Evolution of Linguistic Structure: an iterated.. - Kirby (3 citations) (Correct)
....to meaning. 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 ....
....(E language, or utterances) We can therefore see the processes of language induction, and language production as imposing endogenous selection pressures on languages. To put it another way, these transformations act as bottlenecks on the persistance of linguistic variation (see also, 8] [11]) Taking these in turn it is clear that the optimal system with regard to these two bottlenecks is rather di erent: Induction The induction, or learning bottleneck, appears to favour languages that are maximally structurepreserving. More generally, it has been argued that the learning ....
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J. R. Hurford, \Expression/induction models of language evolution: Dimensions and issues," In Briscoe [23].
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....[Hurford 92] shapes the language faculty in the long term through genetic transmission and in accordance with the principles of Darwinian evolution. Universal mechanisms may evolve which influence the general types of languages which are available to us. In the short term, glossogenetic processes [Hurford 90] shape language 1 such as irregular verbs or lexemes. I do not mean here irregularities which can be attributed to imperfections in the speakers language production systems (competence performance distinction) 6 specific features (or grammars) through cultural transmission over several ....
....which requirements are necessary, or possibly sufficient, for certain features of natural language to evolve through glossogenetic processes. The framework which is common to much research in simulations of the evolution of language is characterised by the following aspects (see also figure 2. 1, Hurford in press] and [Steels 97] 1. The language system as a whole is represented as a population of independent agents, each of which possesses an internal representation of language. Often, the population is made open in that new, fresh agents regularly enter it while others die . 2. The agent s language ....
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James R. Hurford. Expression/induction models of language evolution: dimen102 sions and issues. In Ted Briscoe, editor, Linguistic Evolution through Language Acquisition: Formal and Computational Models. Cambridge University Press, in press. http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~jim/dimensio.s.ps.
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James Hurford. Expression/induction models of language evolution: dimensions and issues. In E.J. Briscoe, editor, Linguistic evolution through language acquisition: formal and computational models. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999. Forthcoming.
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