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Title: Emergence of Communication and Language : Language Change among ‘Memoryless Learners’ Simulated in Language Dynamics Equations
Authors: Nakamura, Makoto
Hashimoto, Takashi
Tojo, Satoshi
Issue Date: 2007
Publisher: Springer
Start page: 237
End page: 252
Abstract: Language change is considered as a transition of a user population among languages. Language dynamics equations represent such a transition of population. Our purpose in this paper is to develop a new formalism of language dynamics based on a realistic situation of multiple language contact. We assume a situation where memoryless learners are exposed to a number of languages. Our experiments show that contact with other language speakers during the acquisition of a first language reduces learning accuracy and prevents the emergence of a dominant language. We suppose there is a special communicative language which has a higher similarity to some languages than others; when learners are frequently exposed to a variety of languages, these similar languages attract a relatively higher proportion of the population. We discuss the simulation results from the viewpoint of the language bioprogram hypothesis.
Rights: This is the author-created version of Springer, Language Change among ‘Memoryless Learners’ Simulated in Language Dynamics Equations, Makoto Nakamura, Takashi Hashimoto and Satoshi Tojo, Emergence of Communication and Language, Lyon, Caroline; Nehaniv, Chrystopher L.; Cangelosi, Angelo (Eds.), pp.237-252, 2007 . The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10119/7922
Material Type: author
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