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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"language evolution"”.
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Computer Simulation of Language Evolution
… a computational approach to the problem of language evolution, the study of how language emerges from a situation in which there is no language. The model employed is inspired by the work done in Livingstone (2002) and Livingstone and Fyfe (1999). The structure of the thesis is as follows: …
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Data Driven Models for Language Evolution
Natural languages that originate from a common ancestor are genetically related, words are the core of any language and cognates are words sharing the same ancestor and etymology. Cognate identification, therefore, represents the foundation upon which the evolutionary history of languages may be …
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Language Evolution for Parallel and Scientific Computing
… long dream of both scientists and programming language designers to make the development for and usage of high-performance computing easier. Many attempts have failed, perhaps because this is a hard problem, perhaps because the social motivation and the required steps to achieve success have …
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Building a trajectory syntax through language evolution
If we are to understand the innately human ability to solve complex problems, we must first understand the cognitive processes that allow us to combine different kinds of knowledge, to learn new things and to communicate with other people. I have built a computer simulation, based on the work of …
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Artificial Language Evolution on a Dynamical Interaction Network
… network on the distributed learning of a common language. We derive a new algorithm for generating realistic complex networks, called Noisy Preferential Attachment (NPA). This is a modification of preferential attachment that unifies it with the quasispecies model of molecular evolution. The …
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Microevolutionary language theory
A new microevolutionary theory of complex design within language is proposed. Experiments were carried out that support the theory that complex functional design - adaptive complexity - accumulates due to the evolutionary algorithm at the simplest levels within human natural language. A large …
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Language: what it's for and why we have it
… I agree with the notion that human natural languages are underpinned by an innate faculty of language which predisposes us to acquire the structural aspects of language. Theories pertaining to its primary function, however, are lacking as they are either out of touch with the bigger picture …
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Using Principles from Cognitive Science to Analyze and Guide Language-Related Neural Networks
Natural language, while central to human experience, is not uniquely the domain of humans. AI systems, typically neural networks, exhibit startling language processing capabilities from generating plausible text to modeling simplified language evolution. To what extent are such AI models learning …
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Rock, Paper, Aliens: Effects of Labels and Iconicity on Non-Linguistic Cognition
… this key process is therefore important from an evolutionary perspective. Iconic labels roughly doubled origami production success, likely by supporting cognitive processes such as visual perception and aspects of goal directed behaviour. Experiment 5 used real knapping to corroborate origami …
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Evidence of Language Prerequisites in Pan: Orofacial-Motor and Breath Control in Chimpanzees and Bonobos
<p>Human spoken language requires the concomitant utilization of numerous cognitive and motor skills. Two particularly relevant skills are orofacial-motor control (OFM), the ability to purposefully move one’s facial muscles, and breath control (BC), subglottal air pressure that fuels sound …
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Models and Methods in Cultural and Social Evolution
… ancestors (one or two) as is typical of genetic evolution. We first show that, given a sample of individuals, a cultural common ancestor does not necessarily exist. We then introduce a related concept: the most recent unique ancestor (MRUA), i.e., the most recent single individual who is the …
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"Marie Manje La Pom Nan." Examining the Cognitive Process of Restructuring and Advantage Selection in the Definite Article System in Haitian Creole Among U.S. Born Heritage Speakers of Haitian Creole
… patterns of heritage speakers’ reanalyzed first language are often grammatically divergent from native speakers. Irrespective of the heritage language, there is converging evidence that the cognitive process of reanalysis of heritage languages is often evident in less salient properties of the …
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The Lexicon is Shaped for Incremental Processing in a Noisy Channel
Human language is a constantly evolving system, with properties of a language’s grammar being shaped, among other things, to benefit efficient communication (Zipf, 1949; Köhler, 1987; Gibson et al., 2019). One important area of a language’s grammar is its lexicon, or set of words and their …
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The Adaptive Value of Complex Socio-Communicative Behavior
<p>Human spoken language represents the most elaborate communication system, however the selection pressures leading to its emergence are still uncertain. Unlike humans, bonobos and chimpanzees do not have language. However, bonobos may have been subjected to similar selection pressures as early …
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Does It Really Matter?
… in written English because of my English language education? Am I being too picky? Does it really matter?” One of the requirements of one of my graduate-level rhetoric and composition seminar classes was to write “reading responses” to assigned readings, and to post them on TRACS, an …