nam a22 c 4500 ais.3/436010296 nljbp 250625015549.7 cr ||||||||||| 241216s2012 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2011050949 9789027274953 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp P35 306.44 23 CFX bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution Edited by Luc Steels Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 ©2012 1 online resource (xii, 306 pp. ) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Advances in Interaction Studies 1879-873X 3 Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction. Self-organization and selection in cultural language evolution / Luc Steels -- The Grounded Naming Game / Luc Steels and Martin Loetzsch -- Language strategies for color / Joris Bleys -- Emergent mirror systems for body language / Luc Steels and Michael Spranger -- The co-evolution of basic spatial terms and categories / Michael Spranger -- Multi-dimensional meanings in lexicon formation / Pieter Wellens and Martin Loetzsch -- The evolution of case systems for marking event structure / Remi van Trijp -- Emergent functional grammar for space / Michael Spranger and Luc Steels -- The emergence of internal agreement systems / Katrien Beuls, Luc Steels and Sebastian Höfer -- A language strategy for aspect / Kateryna Gerasymova, Michael Spranger and Katrien Beuls -- The emergence of quantifiers / Simon Pauw and Joseph Hilferty The fascinating question of the origins and evolution of language has been drawing a lot of attention recently, not only from linguists, but also from anthropologists, evolutionary biologists, and brain scientists. This groundbreaking book explores the cultural side of language evolution. It proposes a new overarching framework based on linguistic selection and self-organization and explores it in depth through sophisticated computer simulations and robotic experiments. Each case study investigates how a particular type of language system can emerge in a population of language game playing agents and how it can continue to evolve in order to cope with changes in ecological conditions. Case studies cover on the one hand the emergence of concepts and words for proper names, color terms, names for bodily actions, spatial terms and multi-dimensional words. The second set of experiments focuses on the emergence of grammar, specifically case grammar for expressing argument structure, functional grammar for expressing different uses of spatial relations, internal agreement systems for marking constituent structure, morphological expression of aspect, and quantifiers expressed as articles. The book is ideally suited as study material for an advanced course on language evolution and it will be of interest to anyone who wonders how human languages may have originated. Provided by publisher. Computational & corpus linguistics Evolution of language Interaction Studies Theoretical linguistics Steels, Luc editor Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 9789027204561 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/ais.3 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027274953