Title :
Coevolution of language and intentionality sharing
Author :
Gong, Tao ; Minett, James W. ; Wang, William S Y
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Linguistics, Max Planck Inst. for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Abstract :
We conduct an evolutionary simulation to explore the coevolution of language and a language-related ability, intentionality sharing. Our simulation shows that during the evolution of a simple informative language, communicative success helps optimize the level of intentionality sharing in the population. This study illustrates a selective role of language communications on language-related abilities, and assists the discussion of the uniqueness of language-related abilities based on comparative studies.
Keywords :
computational linguistics; evolutionary computation; grammars; optimisation; evolutionary simulation; grammar; informative language; intentionality sharing optimization; language coevolution model; language-related ability; Animals; Cognition; Computational modeling; Evolution (biology); Evolutionary computation; History; Humans; Mirrors; Neurons; Pediatrics;
Conference_Titel :
Evolutionary Computation, 2009. CEC '09. IEEE Congress on
Conference_Location :
Trondheim
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2958-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2959-2
DOI :
10.1109/CEC.2009.4983124
