Abstract
This paper describes a framework for studies of the adaptive acquisition and evolution of language, with the following components: language learning begins by associating words with cognitively salient representations ("grounding"); the sentences of each language are determined by properties of lexical items, and so only these need to be transmitted by learning; the learnable languages allow multiple agreements, multiple crossing agreements, and reduplication, as mildly context sensitive and human languages do; infinitely many different languages are learnable; many of the learnable languages include infinitely many sentences; in each language, inferential processes can be defined over succinct representations of the derivations themselves; the languages can be extended by innovative responses to communicative demands. Preliminary analytic results and a robotic implementation are described.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Advances in Artificial Life |
Publisher | Springer-Verlag |
Pages | 525-534 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Volume | 2801 |
ISBN (Print) | 3540200576, 9783540200574 |
State | Published - Jan 1 2003 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 7th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2003 - Dortmund, Germany Duration: Sep 14 2003 → Sep 17 2003 |
Other
Other | 7th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2003 |
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Country | Germany |
City | Dortmund |
Period | 9/14/03 → 9/17/03 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Computer Science(all)