Approaches to the Evolution of Language

By Philip Lieberman, J. Hurford, Michael Studdert-Kennedy, C. Knight. 1999

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Deception as a Derived Function of Language (2016, background): “…often in the interest of manipulating competitors (Dawkins and Krebs, 1978; Byrne and Whiten, 1990; Hauser, 1992), many examining the evolution of language have queried how language remains predominantly honest in the average daily use of language (Knight, 1998; Nettle, 1999; Fitch, 2010).”
Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure-an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity (2001, background): “…which signals can be produced for particular meanings; 2) an algorithm for inducing this representation given exam- ples of meanings and signals; 3) some means of generating signals for meanings that the induced language representation does not include (e.g., in the early stages of the simulation).”
Articulatory Phonology: A phonology for public language use (2003, background): “In all such selfdiversifying systems (Abler 1989; Studdert-Kennedy 1998), the atomic units are discretely distinct from one another, and they retain their discreteness when they combine to form new objects.”
Emergence of Language with Multi-agent Games: Learning to Communicate with Sequences of Symbols (2017, background): “These considerations, as well as desire to achieve a better understanding of principles guiding evolution and emergence of natural languages (Nowak and Krakauer, 1999; Brighton, 2002), have motivated previous research into setups where agents invent a communication protocol which lets them succeed i”
Language as shaped by the brain. (2008, background): “…subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. when two species with markedly different rates of adaptation enter a symbiotic relationship, the rapidly evolving species adapts to the slowly evolving one, but not the reverse (Frean & Abraham 2004).”
Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution (2002, background): “As is well known, Chomsky himself has been notably evasive on the issue of the evolution of the language faculty, often seeming to cast aspersions on the theory of natural selection (Newmeyer 1998 collects representative quotes).”