Language Evolution and Computation Bibliography

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2006
Computer modelling as a tool for understanding language evolutionPDF
Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture - A non-adaptationist, systems theoretical approach, 2006
This paper describes the uses of computer models in studying the evolution of language. Language is a complex dynamic system that can be studied at the level of the individual and at the level of the population. Much of the dynamics of language evolution and language change occur ...MORE ⇓
This paper describes the uses of computer models in studying the evolution of language. Language is a complex dynamic system that can be studied at the level of the individual and at the level of the population. Much of the dynamics of language evolution and language change occur because of the interaction of these two levels. It is argued that this interaction is too complicated to study with pen-and-paper analysis alone and that computer models therefore provide a useful tool for understanding language evolution. Different techniques are presented: direct optimization, genetic algorithms and agent-based models. Of each of these techniques, an example is briefly presented. Also, the importance of correctly measuring and presenting the results of computer simulations is stressed.
Simulating the syntax and semantics of linguistic constructions about timePDF
Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture - A non-adaptationist, systems theoretical approach, 2006
In this paper we motivate and report on the implementation of a computer experiment to investigate the syntax and semantics of linguistic constructions about time. It is argued that the way in which a domain like time is conceptualized is not universal and evolves over time. To ...MORE ⇓
In this paper we motivate and report on the implementation of a computer experiment to investigate the syntax and semantics of linguistic constructions about time. It is argued that the way in which a domain like time is conceptualized is not universal and evolves over time. To investigate this we want to simulate a population of agents evolving their proper language and ontology of time in order to succeed in communicating temporal information. Such simulations can be done using a formalism proposed by Steels (2004). Some advances in applying the formalism to the domain of time are reported and examples of actual simulations are presented.
Towards a quantum evolutionary scheme: violating Bell's inequalities in languagePDF
Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture - A non-adaptationist, systems theoretical approach, 2006
We show the presence of genuine quantum structures in human language. The neo-Darwinian evolutionary scheme is founded on a probability structure that satisfies the Kolmogorovian axioms, and as a consequence cannot incorporate quantum-like evolutionary change. In earlier research ...MORE ⇓
We show the presence of genuine quantum structures in human language. The neo-Darwinian evolutionary scheme is founded on a probability structure that satisfies the Kolmogorovian axioms, and as a consequence cannot incorporate quantum-like evolutionary change. In earlier research we revealed quantum structures in processes taking place in conceptual space. We argue that the presence of quantum structures in language and the earlier detected quantum structures in conceptual change make the neo-Darwinian evolutionary scheme strictly too limited for Evolutionary Epistemology. We sketch how we believe that evolution in a more general way should be implemented in epistemology and conceptual change, but also in biology, and how this view would lead to another relation between both biology and epistemology.
Introduction to evolutionary epistemology, language and culture
Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture - A non-adaptationist, systems theoretical approach, pages 1-29, 2006
Evolutionary epistemology (EE) is about developing a normative framework, based upon evolutionary thinking, that can explain all of an organism's phylogenetic and ontogenetic evolution.(1) EE is sketched as an inter-and transdisciplinary field that evolved out of ...
Evolutionary Epistemology and the origin and evolution of language - taking symbiogenesis seriously
Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture - A non-adaptationist, systems theoretical approach, pages 195-226, 2006
Symbiogenesis is a form of horizontal evolution that occurred 2 billion years ago, with the evolution of eukaryotic cells. It will be argued that, just as we can develop universal selection theories based upon a general account of natural selection, we can also develop a ...