Eavesdropping and language dynamics

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 264, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 104-118

  Komarova, Natalia L ^a   Levin, Simon A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agents; Alarm calls; Animal communication; Communication games; Language dynamics equation; Language evolution; Synonyms

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; COST; EAVESDROPPING; HEARING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPEECH;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBABILITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77649231231     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.01.010     Document Type: Article

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