The paper surveys recent research on language evolution, focusing in particular on models
of cultural evolution and how they are being developed and tested using agent-based …

This position paper proposes that the study of embodied cognitive agents, such as
humanoid robots, can advance our understanding of the cognitive development of complex …

This chapter considers the application of the principles of Construction Grammar to
language change. It describes a particular change in a morphological construction of Old …

This book addresses one of the most pervasive questions in historical linguistics–why
variation becomes stable rather than being eliminated–by revisiting the so far neglected …

This paper revisits the key questions in current thinking in evolutionary linguistics, reviews
the alleged stages during language evolution, and evaluates the mainstream hypotheses on …

The Talking Heads Experiment, conducted in the years 1999-2001, was the first large-scale
experiment in which open populations of situated embodied agents created for the first time …

This chapter focuses on individual factors and their interaction with social ecologies
reviewing the neurobiological mechanisms that facilitate adaptation. The chapter provides a …

Two of the main theoretical approaches to the evolution of language are biolinguistics and
usage-based approaches. Both are often conceptualized as belonging to seemingly …

This book presents groundbreaking robotic experiments on how and why spatial language
evolves. It provides detailed explanations of the origins of spatial conceptualization …

This chapter outlines the main challenges a theory for the cultural evolution of language
should address and proposes a particular theory which is worked out and explored in …