Major transitions in language evolution

Entropy

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 227-246

  Plotkin, Joshua B ^a   Nowak, Martin A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary game theory; Language evolution; Phoneme; Shannon's noisy coding theorem

Indexed keywords

GAME THEORY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SYNTACTICS; THEOREM PROVING;

LANGUAGE EVOLUTION; PHONEME; SHANNON'S NOISY CODING THEOREM;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 3242752707     PISSN: 10994300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e3040227     Document Type: Article

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