" The most basic principle guiding [language] design is not communicative utility but
reproduction-theirs and ours... Languages are social and cultural entities that have evolved …

This article aims to show that linguistics, in particular the study of the lexico-syntactic aspects
of language, provides fertile ground for artificial life modeling. A survey of the models that …

Human language is a unique natural communication system for two reasons. Firstly, the
mapping from meanings to signals in language has structural properties that are not found in …

Using neural nets to simulate learning and the genetic algorithm to simulate evolution in a
toy world of mushrooms and mushroom-foragers, we place two ways of acquiring categories …

The paper reports on experiments with a population of visually grounded robotic agents
capable of bootstrapping their own ontology and shared lexicon without prior design nor …

Language is such an important human characteristics that we would like to know how it first
came into existence and how it managed to reach its present form. If we could go back in …

Human language is learned, symbolic and exhibits syntactic structure, a set of properties
which make it unique among naturally-occurring communication systems. How did human …

The Baldwin effect has been explicitly used by Pinker and Bloom as an explanation of the
origins of language and the evolution of a language acquisition device. This article presents …

We work with a large spatialized array of individuals in an environment of drifting food
sources and predators. The behavior of each individual is generated by its simple neural …

It has been postulated that aspects of human language are both genetically and culturally
transmitted. How might these processes interact to determine the structure of language? An …