Sequence Memory Constraints Give Rise to Language-Like Structure through Iterated Learning.

Human language is composed of sequences of reusable elements. The origins of the sequential structure of language is a hotly debated topic in evolutionary linguistics. In this paper, we show that sets of sequences with language-like statistical properties can emerge from a process of cultural evolut...

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Main Authors: Hannah Cornish, Rick Dale, Simon Kirby, Morten H Christiansen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5261806?pdf=render