Language Evolution and Computation Bibliography

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Proceedings :: Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
1998
Generalization, simple recurrent networks, and the emergence of structurePDF
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1998
If human behavior were list-like, accounting for human behavior would be simple: Just enumerate the list of possible stereotypies. Alternatively, if behavior were predictable on the basis of abstract, fully-productive, context-insensitive rules, our task would be different but ...MORE ⇓
If human behavior were list-like, accounting for human behavior would be simple: Just enumerate the list of possible stereotypies. Alternatively, if behavior were predictable on the basis of abstract, fully-productive, context-insensitive rules, our task would be different but ...
Linguistic Relativity and Word Acquisition: A Computational ApproachPDF
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 244-249, 1998
Abstract Language plays a pervasive role in our day-to-day experience and is likely to have an effect on other non-linguistic aspects of life. At the same time, language is itself constrained by the world. In this paper we study this interaction using Playpen, a ...
Modeling the emergence of syllable systemsPDF
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 882-886, 1998
In this paper we present an approach to modeling emergent syllable systems using simulated evolution of a ``vocabulary'' of ``words.'' The model is aimed at testing the general hypothesis that language-universal sound patterns emerge from selection pressures exerted on the system ...MORE ⇓
In this paper we present an approach to modeling emergent syllable systems using simulated evolution of a ``vocabulary'' of ``words.'' The model is aimed at testing the general hypothesis that language-universal sound patterns emerge from selection pressures exerted on the system by the perceptual and articulatory constraints of language users. The model is able to distinguish between hypotheses about how specific, biologicallymotivated constraints affect the sound structure of language. For example, it is shown that mandibular oscillation provides a strong constraint on the sequential organization of phonemes into words. Future work will explore the potential of other constraints that, with mandibular oscillation, will be sufficient to describe the emergence of syllable systems.