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Abstract

Compositionality and regularity are universals in human languages; in most languages, complex expressions are determined by their structures and their components’ meanings. Based on a multi-agent computational model, the coevolution of compositionality and one type of regularity, word order, is traced during the emergence of compositional language out of holistic signals. The model modifies some questionable aspects in the Iterated Learning Model and Fluid Construction Grammar by considering the conventionalization in horizontal transmission and the gradual formation of syntactic categories which mirror the semantic categories. The model also implements a bottom-up syntactic developmental process, i.e., the global orders for regulating multiple arguments are gradually formed from simple local orders between two categories.

@inproceedings{gong06CompositionalityRegularity,
  author={Tao Gong and James W. Minett and William S-Y. Wang},
  title={Computational simulation on the co-evolution of compositionality and regularity},
  year={2006},
  pages={99-106},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/gong06CompositionalityRegularity.html}
}

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