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Lee, Y., Collier, T. C., Taylor, C. E., and Stabler, E. P. (2005) The role of population structure in language evolution. In Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics.

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Abstract

The question of language evolution is of interest to linguistics, biology and recently, engineering communicating networks. Previous work on these problems has focused mostly on a fully-connected population. We are extending this study to structured populations, which are generally more realistic and offer rich opportunities for linguistic diversification. Our work focuses on the convergence properties of a spatially structured population of learners acquiring a language from one another. We investigate several metrics, including mean language coherence and the critical learning fidelity threshold.
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@inproceedings{lee05populationStructure,
  author={Yoosook Lee and Travis C. Collier and Charles E. Taylor and Edward P. Stabler},
  title={The role of population structure in language evolution},
  year={2005},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics},
  url={http://groups.lis.illinois.edu/amag/langev/paper/lee05populationStructure.html}
}