The evolution of syntactic communication

By Martin A. Nowak, Joshua B. Plotkin, Vincent A. A. Jansen. 2000

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Molecular Biology, Sociology and Political Science

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Emergence of Grounded Compositional Language in Multi-Agent Populations (2017, background): “Of particular interest in these ﬁelds has been the question of how syntax and compositional structure in language emerged, and why it is largely unique to human languages (Kirby 1999; Nowak, Plotkin, and Jansen 2000; Steels 2005).”
Compositionality and Generalization In Emergent Languages (2020, background): “That languages capable to generalize will only emerge when the input is varied enough might seem obvious, and it has been shown before in mathematical simulations of language emergence (Nowak et al., 2000), as well as in studies of deep network”
Towards the Quantification of the Semantic Information Encoded in Written Language (2009, background): “Language has developed following the laws of natural evolution [14, 18, 19] with the functional goal of encoding and transmitting information between humans.”
The small world of human language (2001, background): “Future work should address this problem theoretically, perhaps using an evolutionary language game model (Nowak & Krakauer, 1999; Nowak et al., 2000) where a pay-off associated to the graph structure is introduced.”
Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure-an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity (2001, background): “…representation of language that specifies the ways in 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…”
The faculty of language: what's special about it? (2005, critical): “These hypotheses challenge a more conventional evolutionary vision of language, according to which the language faculty evolved gradually in response to the adaptive value of more precise and efficient communication in a knowledge-using, socially interdependent lifestyle (Nowak & Komarova, 2001; Now”
Evolving grounded communication for robots. (2003, background): “Other experiments have explored the same framework for the emergence of a shared repertoire of speech sounds [ 19 ] or grammatical constructions [24].”
A syntactic rule in forest monkey communication (2002, background): “Lexical syntax requires evidence for a rule that encodes new meanings independent of the meanings of the compounds and recipients that comprehend the semantic change invoked by the rule (Nowak et al. 2000).”
From monkey-like action recognition to human language: An evolutionary framework for neurolinguistics (2005, background): “Nowak et al (2000) analyzed conditions under which a population which had two genes − one for unitary”