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Gong, T., Minett, J. W., and Wang, W. S-Y. (2007) A Simulative Study of the Roles of Cultural Transmission in Language Evolution. In Proceedings of 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pages 843--850. Singapore.

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Abstract

A multi-agent computational model is proposed to simulate language evolution in an acquisition framework. This framework involves many major forms of cultural transmission, and the simulation results of the model systematically examine the role of cultural transmission in language emergence and maintenance. In addition, this study discusses the effects of conventionalization during horizontal transmission on diffusing linguistic innovations, maintaining high levels of linguistic understandability, and triggering inevitable changes in the communal languages across generations. All these reflect that conventionalization could be a self-organizing property of the human communication system that drives language evolution.
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@inproceedings{gong07culturalTransmission,
  author={T. Gong and J. W. Minett and W. S-Y. Wang},
  title={A Simulative Study of the Roles of Cultural Transmission in Language Evolution},
  year={2007},
  pages={843-850},
  address={Singapore},
  booktitle={Proceedings of 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation},
  url={http://groups.lis.illinois.edu/amag/langev/paper/gong07culturalTransmission.html}
}