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The Origin of Linguistic Categories
Luc Steels
SONY Computer Science Laboratory
6 Rue Amyot, 75005 Paris
and VUB AI Laboratory
Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels
steels@arti.vub.ac.be
(draft Evolution of Language
Conference ­ London 1998
June 1, 1998
Abstract The paper presents cognitive mechanisms and behavioral rules by which a group of distributed autonomous agents may develop a joined shared repertoire of grammatical conventions. The grammar includes an emergent internal meta­level ontology which is exploited for tightening the grammatical constraints. To illustrate the latter, it is shown how a proto­ typical form for members of a syntactic category may gradually emerge, thus making it easier to guess to which syntactic category an unknown form belongs.
1 Introduction There is a growing body of work exploring the idea that language can be viewed as a complex adaptive system [8], [4]. The research explores formal models of language use in evolving inhomogeneous populations through computational simulations and experiments with physical robotic agents. Shared linguistic conventions have been shown to emerge as attractors of a language dynamics operating over autonomous distributed agents. Each interaction, or language game, involves a speaker and a hearer randomly drawn from a population. The speaker attempts to produce an utterance and the hearer attempts to parse it. When the interaction fails, the agents construct or change aspects of their lan­ guage competence (if they play the role of speaker) or acquire parts they were missing (if they play the role of hearer). The power of the agent's cognitive archi­ tecture and the construction and acquisition operators they employ determine the complexity of the linguistic structures that will emerge in the simulations. 1 The more the dynamics incorporates characteristics of human physiology or cognitive capacity, and the more the possible universes of discourse approach the characteristics of human environments, the closer ...
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  author={L. Steels},
  title={The Origin of Linguistic Categories},
  year={1998},
  address={London},
  publisher={},
  booktitle={The Evolution of Language (Selected papers from 2nd International Conference on the Evolution of Language},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/steels98theOrigin.html}
}

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