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Abstract

Language is culturally transmitted. Iterated Learning, the process by which the output of one individual's learning becomes the input to other individuals' learning, provides a framework for investigating the cultural evolution of linguistic structure. We present two models, based upon the Iterated Learning framework, which show that the poverty of the stimulus available to language learners leads to the emergence of linguistic structure. Compositionality is language's adaptation to stimulus poverty.

Keywords: Iterated learning, cultural evolution, language, compositionality

@article{sbk_ALife,
  author={K. Smith and S. Kirby and H. Brighton},
  title={Iterated Learning: a framework for the emergence of language},
  journal={Artificial Life},
  year={2003},
  volume={9},
  number={4},
  pages={371-386},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/sbk_ALife.html},
  keywords={Iterated learning, cultural evolution, language, compositionality}
}

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