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| HAL: halshs-00410040, version 1 |
| DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3395-8 |
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| Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture - A nonadaptationist systems theoretical approach, Nathalie Gontier, Jean Paul Van Bendegem and Diederik Aerts (Ed.) (2006) 169-194 |
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| From Changes in the World to Changes in the Words: Lexical Adaptation |
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| Jean-Philippe Magué 1, 2 |
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| This paper deals with the evolution of the lexicon in a changing environment. We adopt Mufwene's (2001) metaphor of 'language as species' that explains evolution of languages as differential selection of features in languages' feature pools. We propose a multi-agent model and use it to explore the role of different constraints on the feature selection process. We show that constraints are indeed competing and that one of them is the major constraint in natural selection, viz., fitness to the environment. |
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| 1: | Dynamique Du Langage (DDL) |
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CNRS : UMR5596 – Université Lumière - Lyon II |
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| 2: | Interactions, Corpus, Apprentissages, Représentations (ICAR) |
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CNRS : UMR5191 – Université Lumière - Lyon II – Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines – INRP – École Normale Supérieure - Lyon |
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| Subject | : | Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics |
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| language evolution – semantic change – modeling – multi-agent – conceptual space |
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| From: Jean-Philippe Magué | |
| Submitted on: Tuesday, 7 June 2011 15:33:40 | |
| Updated on: Wednesday, 8 June 2011 17:08:06 | |
