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Experiments in Cultural Language EvolutionEdited by Luc Steels
[Advances in Interaction Studies 3] 2012
► pp. 233–256
The emergence of internal agreement systems
Katrien Beuls | Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Luc Steels | Sony Computer Science
Laboratory Paris
Sebastian Höfer | Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin
Grammatical agreement means that two linguistic units share certain syntactic or semantic features such as gender, number or person. Agreement has a variety of grammatical functions. One of them, called internal agreement, is to signal which words
are grouped together as part of the same phrase. This chapter explores how a population might self-organize such
an agreement system. We argue that this happens when speakers attempt to reduce processing effort and avoid ambiguities.
Published online: 23 February 2012
https://doi.org/10.1075/ais.3.12beu
https://doi.org/10.1075/ais.3.12beu
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