title: Computer Simulation of Language Evolution
creator: Eger, Steffen
subject: ddc-004
subject: 004 Data processing Computer science
description: This master thesis presents a computational approach to the problem of language evolution, the study of how language emerges from a situation in which there is no language. The model employed is inspired by the work done in Livingstone (2002) and Livingstone and Fyfe (1999). The structure of the thesis is as follows: Chapter 2 introduces the basic terminology and results of dialectology and language change. Chapter 3 gives an overview of the simulation model and the details of implementation. Chapter 4 provides an analysis of the model’s parameters and discusses the results observable for the ‘basic’ implementation. Chapter 5 describes the setup and outcomes of genuinely novel experiments; these include the study of the emergence of simple compositional grammars. Chapter 6 recapitulates the findings obtained and relates these to questions of general linguistic importance.
date: 2007
type: Master's thesis
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/7255/1/arbeit.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00007255
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-72552
identifier:   Eger, Steffen  (2007) Computer Simulation of Language Evolution.  [Master's thesis]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/7255/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng