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Gong, T., Minett, J. W., and Wang, W. S-Y. (2006) Language origin and the effects of individuals' popularity. In Proceedings of 2006 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, pages 3744--3751. Vancouver, CA.
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Abstract

The emergence of a compositional language with a simple grammar and the effects of individualsâ™ popularity on the phylogeny of language are studied based on a multi-agent computational model. In this model, a bottom-up syntactic development is traced, in which the global syntax in sentences is gradually formed from local sequential information. Assuming that the popularity of individuals follows a power-law distribution, we demonstrate that a common language can emerge efficiently only for certain power-law distributions and that these distributions could also be formed as a result of the language phylogeny.
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@inproceedings{gong06languageOrigin,
  author={T. Gong and J. W. Minett and W. S-Y. Wang},
  title={Language origin and the effects of individuals' popularity},
  year={2006},
  pages={3744-3751},
  address={Vancouver, CA},
  booktitle={Proceedings of 2006 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/gong06languageOrigin.html}
}

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