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Abstract

We describe a model for the evolution of the languages used by the agents of a society. Our main result proves convergence of these langua ges to a common one under certain conditions. A few special cases are elaborated in more depth.

Keywords: Language evolution, Learning theory

@article{cucker03,
  author={Felipe Cucker and Steve Smale and Ding-Xuan Zhou},
  title={Modeling Language Evolution},
  journal={Foundations of Computational Mathematics},
  year={2004},
  month={July},
  volume={4},
  number={3},
  pages={315-343},
  doi={10.1007/s10208-003-0101-2},
  url={http://groups.lis.illinois.edu/amag/langev/paper/cucker03.html},
  keywords={Language evolution,Learning theory}
}