Aging in the Emergence of Linguistic Categories

Categories are fundamental to recognize, differentiate and understand the environment. They are meant to provide a coarse-grained description of the world we perceive. For instance, few “basic color terms”, present in natural lan-guages, coarse-grain the infinite number of different colors that humans can possibly perceive. An important question is whether categories are a manifestation of an underlying struc-ture of nature or an emergent property of the complex inter-actions among individuals themselves as well as with the en-vironment. The current work attempts to seek for an answer to this question by modeling a population of individuals who co-evolve their form-meaning repertoire by playing elemen-tary language games. The Category Game is a computational model designe