SMITH, KENNY; BRIGHTON, HENRY; KIRBY, SIMON - In: Advances in Complex Systems (ACS) 06 (2003) 04, pp. 537-558
Language arises from the interaction of three complex adaptive systems — biological evolution, learning, and culture. We focus here on cultural evolution, and present an Iterated Learning Model of the emergence of compositionality, a fundamental structural property of language. Our main result...