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Ritchie, G. and Kirby, S. (2006) Modelling the transititon to learned communication: an initial investigation into the ecological conditions favouring cultural transmission. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, pages 283--290.
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Abstract

Vocal learning is a key component of the human language faculty, and is a behaviour we share with only a few other species in nature. Perhaps the most studied example of this phenomenon is bird song which displays a number of striking parallels with human language, particularly in its development. In this paper we present a simple computational model of bird song development and then use this in a model of evolution to investigate some of the ecological conditions under which vocal behaviour can become more or less reliant on cultural transmission.
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@inproceedings{ritchie06ecologicalConditions,
  author={Graham Ritchie and Simon Kirby},
  title={Modelling the transititon to learned communication: an initial investigation into the ecological conditions favouring cultural transmission},
  year={2006},
  pages={283-290},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/ritchie06ecologicalConditions.html}
}

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