Journal
ARTIFICIAL LIFE
Volume 9, Issue 4, Pages 371-386Publisher
MIT PRESS
DOI: 10.1162/106454603322694825
Keywords
iterated learning; cultural evolution; language; compositionality
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Language is culturally transmitted. Iterated learning, the process by which the output of one individual's learning becomes the input to other individuals' learning, provides a framework for investigating the Cultural evolution of linguistic structure. We present two models, based upon the iterated learning framework, which show that the poverty of the Stimulus available to language learners leads to the emergence of linguistic structure. Compositionality is language's adaptation to stimulus poverty.
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