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Gong, T. (2010) Exploring the roles of major forms of cultural transmission in language evolution. In Andrew D. M. Smith and Marieke Schouwstra and Bart de Boer and Kenny Smith, editors, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, pages 168--175. World Scientific.

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Abstract

Cultural transmission is the primary medium of linguistic interactions. We propose an acquisition framework that involves the major forms of cultural transmissions, such as vertical, oblique and horizontal transmissions. By manipulating the ratios of these forms of transmission in the total number of transmission across generations of individuals, we analyze their roles in language evolution, based on a lexicon-syntax coevolution model. The simulation results indicate that all these forms of transmission collectively lead to the dynamic equilibrium of language evolution across generations.
BibTex
@inproceedings{gong2010evolangExploring,
  author={Tao Gong},
  title={Exploring the roles of major forms of cultural transmission in language evolution},
  year={2010},
  pages={168-175},
  editor={Andrew D. M. Smith and Marieke Schouwstra and Bart de Boer and Kenny Smith},
  publisher={World Scientific},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language},
  doi={10.1142/9789814295222_0022},
  url={http://groups.lis.illinois.edu/amag/langev/paper/gong2010evolangExploring.html}
}