Agent-Based Models of Strategies for the Emergence and Evolution of Grammatical Agreement

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Beuls, Katrien ^a   Steels, Luc ^b,c  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c SONY COMPUTER SCIENCE LABORATORY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL LEARNING; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

ALGORITHMS; COERCION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84875074136     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058960     Document Type: Article

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