Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution

Name: Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution
Brand: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Price: 123.99 EUR
Availability: OnlineOnly

Luc Steels(Editor)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

1st Edition

Published on 23. February 2012

XII, 306 pages

E-Book

PDF with Adobe-DRM

System requirements

978-90-272-7495-3 (ISBN)

€123.99incl. 7% vat

System requirements

for PDF with Adobe-DRM

E-Book Single Licence

Available for download

Description

More details

Other editions

Person

Content

Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Foreword
References
Self-organization and selection in cultural language evolution
1. Introduction
2. Facts about cultural language evolution
2.1. Language systems and language strategies
2.2. Language change and language evolution
2.3. Semiotic dynamics
2.4. Challenges for theories of cultural language evolution
3. Language evolution through linguistic selection
3.1. Linguistic selection criteria
3.2. Linguistic selection of systems and strategies
4. The role of cognition
5. The role of self-organization
6. Evolutionary language games
6.1. Paradigms for studying cultural language evolution
6.2. Language games
6.3. Empirical relevance of language game experiments
7. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Part I: Emergence of perceptually grounded vocabularies
The Grounded Naming Game
1. Introduction
2. The Non-Grounded Naming Game
2.1. Diagnostics and repairs for the Non-Grounded Naming Game
2.2. Alignment for the Non-Grounded Naming Game
3. The Grounded Naming Game
3.1. Perception and conceptualization
3.2. Experimental results
3.3. Adding additional heuristics
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Language strategies for color
1. Introduction
2. The Color Naming Game
3. Language strategies for color
3.1. Hue strategy
3.2. Brightness Strategy
3.3. Graded Membership Strategy
4. Linguistic selection of strategies
4.1. Selective advantages
4.2. Strategy competition
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix
A. Interpretation variance
B. Strategy coherence
Emergent mirror systems for body language
1. Introduction
2. The mirror experiment
2.1. Acquiring a mirror system
2.2. Diagnostics, repairs and alignment
2.3. Experimental results
3. Coordination without mirrors
3.1. Diagnostics, repairs and alignment
3.2. Experimental results
4. Improving meaning guesses through self-simulation
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
The co-evolution of basic spatial terms and categories
1. Introduction
2. The language game
3. Reconstructing German basic spatial terms
3.1. Angular relations
3.2. Proximal relations
3.3. Measuring the performance of German basic spatial terms
4. Acquisition experiments
4.1. Acquiring projective categories
4.2. Acquiring proximal categories
4.3. Acquiring absolute categories
4.4. Simultaneous acquisition of different language systems
5. Formation experiments
6. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Multi-dimensional meanings in lexicon formation
1. Introduction
2. Experimental setup
3. Approaches to lexical language formation
4. An Adaptive Strategy for word learning
4.1. Fine-grained adaptive meaning representation
4.2. Flexible re-use in language processing
4.3. Invention and adoption
4.4. Alignment
5. Experimental results
6. A comparison with a Competitive Strategy
6.1. Experimental results
7. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Part II: Emergence of grammatical systems
The evolution of case systems for marking event structure
1. Introduction
2. Why do some languages evolve a case system?
2.1. The apparent complexity of `event structure grammars'
2.2. Factual description games
2.3. Reconstruction experiment: The German case system
Cognitive effort
Expressive power and learnability
3. How can a population self-organize a case system?
3.1. Acquisition of a case system
3.2. Self-organization of a case system
Cognitive effort, coherence and systematicity
Expressivity and learnability
The emergent language systems
4. Why and how do case systems evolve new functions?
4.1. Reconstruction of Spanish pronoun systems
4.2. Demonstration of a paradigm shift
5. Discussion and conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Emergent functional grammar for space
1. Introduction
2. The role of grammar
2.1. Spatial semantics
2.2. The role of grammar
3. Establishing the niche for grammar
4. Emergence of grammatical markers
4.1. A grammatical language strategy
4.2. Experimental results
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix
The emergence of internal agreement systems
1. Introduction
1.1. Variation in roles of agreement
1.2. Variation in features used in agreement
1.3. Variation in marking of agreement
2. The sticker theory
3. Experimental set-up
4. Absence of an agreement system
5. Agreement based on formal stickers
5.1. Grammatical constructions
5.2. Formal sticker strategy
5.3. Results
6. Agreement based on meaningful stickers
6.1. Grammatical constructions
6.2. Semantic sticker strategy
6.3. Results
7. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix
Absence of agreement
Formal stickers
Meaningful stickers
A language strategy for aspect
1. Introduction
2. The Russian aspect system
3. Reconstruction of the Russian aspect system
3.1. The aspect language game
3.2. Routine processing of Russian aspectual phrases
3.3. Results
4. Acquisition of the Russian aspect system
4.1. Learning operators
4.2. Holophrases
4.3. Item-based constructions
4.4. Abstract constructions
4.5. Results
5. Emergence of Aktionsarten
5.1. Learning operators
5.2. Results
6. Conclusion and future work
Acknowledgements
References
The emergence of quantifiers
1. Introduction
2. Embodied interaction
3. Experiment 1: Absolute quantification
3.1. Baseline experiment
3.2. Acquisition experiment
3.3. Formation experiment
4. Experiment 2: Scalable quantification
4.1. Baseline experiment
4.2. Acquisition experiment
4.3. Formation experiment
5. Experiment 3: Strategy competition
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Appendix
A. Data
Index

System requirements

Save as PDF Copy link into clipboard

Schweitzer Fachinformationen

Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution

Description

More details

Other editions

Additional editions

Person

Content

System requirements