Many human languages in the world exhibit phrase structure. Phrase structure combines words, phrases, and both, into phrases, and it may empower language systems to exploit recursion. This thesis pushes forward the hypothesis that phrase structure is not an accidental structural property of language, but rather an adaptation of language systems to enable the computation of language. I propose a minimal operational model of communication as a specific language game, which together with concrete learning operators shows how a population of artificial agents is able to self-organise a system exhibiting phrase structure. After demonstrating that phrase structure reduces the complexity of language computation, I propose concrete mechanisms in th...
Recursion qua self-reference applies to various constructs within the cognitive sciences, such as th...
Linguists have often argued that recursion produces linguistic complexity. However, recursion itself...
It has been suggested that hierarchically structured symbols, a remarkable feature of human language...
Many human languages in the world exhibit phrase structure. Phrase structure combines words, phrases...
An elementary fact about language is that it is a system of discrete infinity whose source is recurs...
Trabajo presentada en la 10th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EvoLang), celeb...
The paper argues that syntax is motivated by the need to avoid combinatorial search in parsing and s...
AbstractThis paper describes a new model on the evolution and induction of compositional structures ...
It is interesting how we can take a train of thought and transfer this into another person's mind by...
. A new approach to the origins of syntax in human language is presented. Using computational model...
The natural languages that underlie human communication are remarkably expressive, robust and well-a...
The hypothesis of language use is an attractive theory in order to explain how natural languages evo...
In recent years there has been much debate concerning the human language faculty and the presence of...
The language game approach is widely adopted to study conventionalization of linguistic knowledge. M...
We describe some experiments which show how a language expressive enough to allow the communication ...
Recursion qua self-reference applies to various constructs within the cognitive sciences, such as th...
Linguists have often argued that recursion produces linguistic complexity. However, recursion itself...
It has been suggested that hierarchically structured symbols, a remarkable feature of human language...
Many human languages in the world exhibit phrase structure. Phrase structure combines words, phrases...
An elementary fact about language is that it is a system of discrete infinity whose source is recurs...
Trabajo presentada en la 10th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EvoLang), celeb...
The paper argues that syntax is motivated by the need to avoid combinatorial search in parsing and s...
AbstractThis paper describes a new model on the evolution and induction of compositional structures ...
It is interesting how we can take a train of thought and transfer this into another person's mind by...
. A new approach to the origins of syntax in human language is presented. Using computational model...
The natural languages that underlie human communication are remarkably expressive, robust and well-a...
The hypothesis of language use is an attractive theory in order to explain how natural languages evo...
In recent years there has been much debate concerning the human language faculty and the presence of...
The language game approach is widely adopted to study conventionalization of linguistic knowledge. M...
We describe some experiments which show how a language expressive enough to allow the communication ...
Recursion qua self-reference applies to various constructs within the cognitive sciences, such as th...
Linguists have often argued that recursion produces linguistic complexity. However, recursion itself...
It has been suggested that hierarchically structured symbols, a remarkable feature of human language...