The Cultural Evolution of Syntactic Constraints in Phonology. (2000) [6 citations — 3 self]
by
Luc Steels
,
Pierre-yves Oudeyer
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Artificial Life
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Abstract:
The paper reports on an experiment in which a group of autonomous agents self-organises through cultural evolution constraints on the combination of the individual sounds (phonemes) in their repertoires. We use a selectionist approach whereby a repertoire evolves by mutations of patterns, constrained by functional pressures from perception and production and the need to conform to the group.

