Language evolution in populations: Extending the iterated learning model

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2801, Issue , 2003, Pages 507-516

  Smith, Kenny ^a   Hurford, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POPULATION DYNAMICS; MODELS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; GRAMMAR INDUCTION; ITERATED LEARNING; ITERATED LEARNING MODEL; LANGUAGE EVOLUTION; MODELLING FRAMEWORK; POPULATION MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 7444258392     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39432-7_54     Document Type: Conference Paper

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