Ancient and contemporary theories of the cognitive functions of music are reviewed and
compared with the hypothesis (advanced in Part I) that music performs a fundamental …

How many words—and which ones—are sufficient to define all other words? When
dictionaries are analyzed as directed graphs with links from defining words to defined words …

Modern linguistic typology is increasingly less concerned with what is possible in human
languages (universals) and increasingly more with the question “what's where why?”(Bickel …

Since first introduced, computer simulation has been an increasingly important tool in
evolutionary linguistics. Recently, with the development of deep learning techniques …

The purpose of this study is to develop the basic principles and algorithms for solving the
fundamental scientific problem of substantiating natural language symbols in the process of …

This paper investigates how different modes of social interactions influence the
bootstrapping and evolution of lexicons. This is done by comparing three language game …

In this article we discuss the notion of a linguistic universal, and possible sources of such
invariant properties of natural languages. In the first part, we explore the conceptual issues …

In this paper we present a neuro-robotic model that uses artificial neural networks for
investigating the relations between the development of symbol manipulation capabilities …

A scientific community can be modeled as a collection of epistemic agents attempting to
answer questions, in part by communicating about their hypotheses and results. We can …

Human language is a complex communication system with unlimited expressibility. Children
spontaneously develop a native language by exposure to linguistic data from their speech …