Iterated learning versus language games. Two models for cultural language evolution

Trabajo presentado al International workshop on Self-organisation and evolution of social behaviour, celebrado en Monte Verità (Suiza) del 8 al 13 de septiembre de 2002.The paper compares two models that are currently intensely studied for explining and modeling the origins and evolution of language: the iterated learning model and the language game approach. it introduces a number of challenges that all evolutionary language models must satisfy and examines how further progress might be achieved.N