Title: Emergence of communication and language /
Authors: Lyon, Caroline; Nehaniv, Chrystopher L., 1963-; Cangelosi, Angelo, 1967-
Publisher: Springer,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Language and languages Origin; Computational linguistics.
Contents: Current work and open problems / Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Caroline Lyon, and Angelo Cangelosi -- Evolving meaning / W. Tecumseh Fitch -- 'Needs only' analysis in linguistic ontogeny and phylogeny / Alison Wray -- Clues from information theory indicating a phased emergence of grammar / Caroline Lyon, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, and Bob Dickerson -- Emergence of a communication system / Rachel Rosenstock -- Distributed language / Stephen J. Cowley -- The recruitment theory of language origins / Luc Steels -- In silico evolutionary developmental neurobiology and the origin of natural language / Eörs Szathmdry [and others] -- Communication in natural and artificial organisms / Davide Marocco and Stefano Nolfi -- From vocal replication to shared combinatorial speech codes / Pierre-Yves Oudeyer -- Learning and transition of symbols / Takashi Hashimoto and Akira Masumi -- Language change among 'memoryless learners' simulated in language dynamics equations / Makoto Nakamura, Takashi Hashimoto, and Satoshi Tojo -- The evolution of meaning-space structure through iterated learning / Simon Kirby -- The emergence of language / Domenico Parisi and Marco Mirolli -- Lexical acquisition with and without metacommunication / Jonathan Ginzburg and Zoran Macura -- Agent based modelling of communication costs / Ivana Cate and Joanna J. Bryson -- Language change and the inference of meaning / Andrew D.M. Smith -- Language, perceptual categories and their interaction / Tony Belpaeme and Joris Bleys -- Emergence of linguistic communication / Irene M. Pepperberg -- A possible role for selective masking in the evolution of complex, learned communication systems / Graham R.S. Ritchie and Simon Kirby -- The natural history of human language / Bjorn Merker and Kazuo Okanoya -- Neural substrates for string-context mutual segmentation / Kazuo Okanoya and Bjorn Merker.