Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19910934 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Loetzsch, Joris Bleys, Michael Spranger (0000-0001-9443-7008), Pieter Wellens, Remi van Trijp (0000-0002-0475-8367), Katrien Beuls (0000-0003-4451-4778), Sebastian Höfer, Kateryna Gerasymova, Simon Pauw, Joseph Hilferty (0000-0003-2473-4562) |
| Editors | Luc Steels (0000-0001-9134-3663, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 306 |
| Publication date | 2012-02-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Experiments in cultural language evolution (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/ais.3 |
| OpenAlex | W587711156 |
| ISBN | 9789027204561 |
| Open Library | OL25150989M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
The fascinating question of the origins and evolution of language has been drawing a lot of attention recently, not only from linguists, but also from anthropologists, evolutionary biologists, and brain scientists. This groundbreaking book explores the cultural side of language evolution. It proposes a new overarching framework based on linguistic selection and self-organization and explores it in depth through sophisticated computer simulations and robotic experiments. Each case study investigates how a particular type of language system can emerge in a population of language game playing agents and how it can continue to evolve in order to cope with changes in ecological conditions. Case studies cover on the one hand the emergence of concepts and words for proper names, color terms, names for bodily actions, spatial terms and multi-dimensional words. The second set of experiments focuses on the emergence of grammar, specifically case grammar for expressing argument structure, functional grammar for expressing different uses of spatial relations, internal agreement systems for marking constituent structure, morphological expression of aspect, and quantifiers expressed as articles. The book is ideally suited as study material for an advanced course on language evolution and it will be of interest to anyone who wonders how human languages may have originated
Language evolution · Linguistics · Computer Science · History · Language and cultural evolution · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Anthropological linguistics · Language and languages · Language and linguistics · Linguistic paleontology · Origin
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| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2023 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |