MonographDOI
The Evolution of Language
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
The authors exploit newly available massive natu- ral language corpora to capture the language as a language evolution phenomenon. But their work is limited to a subset of the languages in the corpus.About:
This article is published in New Scientist.The article was published on 2010-04-01. It has received 826 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biolinguistics.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Infinite Generation of Language Unreachable From a Stepwise Approach.
TL;DR: This paper argues that language is not about decidability of weakly generated strings but rather about properties of strongly generated structures and the plausibility proof that infinite productivity evolves from finite language is false because it confuses (infinite) cardinal numbers with (natural) ordinal numbers.
Journal ArticleDOI
A Conceptual Framework for Studying Evolutionary Origins of Life-Genres
TL;DR: In this article, the authors claim that there might exist an evolutionary bridge from possible genres in nature to human cultural genres, and that sufficiently similar utterances can be perceived as kinds of utterances or genres.
Journal ArticleDOI
Scavenging, the stag hunt, and the evolution of language
TL;DR: This article evaluates Derek Bickerton's 2009 theory of language evolution, which argues that language was the result of a need to recruit individuals to help in the scavenging of carcasses of megafauna and that signals were grounded in salient aspects of the environment.
Journal ArticleDOI
Colloquium: Hierarchy of scales in language dynamics
TL;DR: The authors survey a hierarchy of scales at which language and linguistic behaviour can be described, along with the main progress in understanding that has been made at each of them − much of which has come from the statistical physics community.
Journal ArticleDOI
The remarkable vocal anatomy of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus): insights into low-frequency sound production in a marsupial species.
TL;DR: This work uses advanced imaging techniques, histological data, classical macroscopic dissection and behavioural observations to provide the first detailed description and interpretation of male and female koala vocal anatomy, showing that both males and females have an elongated pharynx and soft palate, resulting in a permanently descended larynx.
References
More filters
Book
The Evolution of Cooperation
TL;DR: In this paper, a model based on the concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy in the context of the Prisoner's Dilemma game was developed for cooperation in organisms, and the results of a computer tournament showed how cooperation based on reciprocity can get started in an asocial world, can thrive while interacting with a wide range of other strategies, and can resist invasion once fully established.
Book
The magical number seven plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing information
TL;DR: The theory provides us with a yardstick for calibrating the authors' stimulus materials and for measuring the performance of their subjects, and the concepts and measures provided by the theory provide a quantitative way of getting at some of these questions.
Journal ArticleDOI
Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilities
TL;DR: A model of a system having a large number of simple equivalent components, based on aspects of neurobiology but readily adapted to integrated circuits, produces a content-addressable memory which correctly yields an entire memory from any subpart of sufficient size.
Journal ArticleDOI
Deterministic nonperiodic flow
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that nonperiodic solutions are ordinarily unstable with respect to small modifications, so that slightly differing initial states can evolve into considerably different states, and systems with bounded solutions are shown to possess bounded numerical solutions.
Journal Article
The mathematical theory of communication
Claude E. Shannon,Warren Weaver +1 more
TL;DR: The Mathematical Theory of Communication (MTOC) as discussed by the authors was originally published as a paper on communication theory more than fifty years ago and has since gone through four hardcover and sixteen paperback printings.