Language evolution is shaped by the structure of the world: An iterated learning analysis

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 477-482

  Perfors, Amy ^a   Navarro, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian modeling; iterated learning; language evolution; linguistic structure

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MODELING LANGUAGES;

BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN MODELLING; HUMAN LANGUAGE; ITERATED LEARNING; LANGUAGE EVOLUTION; LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85072648797     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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