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Abstract

Using computational modeling techniques, this paper explores the range of conditions under which structured, language-like communication systems can emerge. In particular, we reconsider Simon Kirby's learning bottleneck model of linguistic adaptation using a different learning mechanism and different semantic domain. We demonstrate how parameters such as population size and training corpus size affect the likelihood of a population reaching consensus on a structure communication system.

@incollection{tonkes02methodologicalIssues,
  author={Bradley Tonkes and Janet Wiles},
  title={Methodological Issues in Simulating the Emergence of Language},
  year={2002},
  address={Oxford},
  chapter={11},
  editor={Alison Wray},
  publisher={Oxford University Press},
  booktitle={The Transition to Language},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/tonkes02methodologicalIssues.html}
}

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