The survival of the smallest: Stability conditions for the cultural evolution of compositional language

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2159, Issue , 2001, Pages 592-601

  Brighton, Henry ^a   Kirby, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYNTACTICS;

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; MINIMUM DESCRIPTION LENGTH PRINCIPLE; MOST LIKELY; SPACE STRUCTURE; STABILITY CONDITION; SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE;

ARTIFICIAL LIFE;

EID: 84858801963     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44811-x_67     Document Type: Conference Paper

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