Languages adapt to their contextual niche
Languages adapt to their contextual niche
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语言适应其语境
DOI：
10.1017/langcog.2014.35
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Kenny Smith
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作者：
James Winters;S. Kirby;Kenny Smith
语境在我们学习和使用语言的过程中起着至关重要的作用，这一点已得到公认。在这里，我们将探讨语境如何将短期语言使用与不同类型语言系统的长期出现联系起来。本研究采用文化传播的迭代学习模式，通过实验研究了话语产生的交际情境的作用（情景语境）以及它如何影响三种语言系统的出现：未指定语言（其中只有一些方面的意义是编码的语言），整体系统（缺乏系统的结构），和系统的语言（由复合信号编码的类别水平和个性化的意义维度）。为此，我们在一个沟通游戏中设置了一个辨别任务，并操纵特征尺寸形状是否相关，以区分两个参考对象。实验语言逐渐演变为编码与实现交际成功任务相关的信息，考虑到它们学习和使用的情景背景，导致不同语言系统的出现。这些结果表明，语言系统适应他们的上下文生态位迭代学习。
abstract It is well established that context plays a fundamental role in how we learn and use language. Here we explore how context links short-term language use with the long-term emergence of different types of language system. Using an iterated learning model of cultural transmission, the current study experimentally investigates the role of the communicative situation in which an utterance is produced (situational context) and how it influences the emergence of three types of linguistic systems: underspecified languages (where only some dimensions of meaning are encoded linguistically), holistic systems (lacking systematic structure), and systematic languages (consisting of compound signals encoding both category-level and individuating dimensions of meaning). To do this, we set up a discrimination task in a communication game and manipulated whether the feature dimension shape was relevant or not in discriminating between two referents. The experimental languages gradually evolved to encode information relevant to the task of achieving communicative success, given the situational context in which they are learned and used, resulting in the emergence of different linguistic systems. These results suggest language systems adapt to their contextual niche over iterated learning.
复杂的自适应系统和自适应结构的起源：实验可以告诉我们什么
影响因子：
4.4
作者：
Cornish H
通讯作者：
Cornish H
语言结构是简单性和表达性之间的进化权衡
DOI：
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发表时间：
2013
期刊：
Proceedings of Cogsci 2013
影响因子：
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作者：
Smith, K
通讯作者：
Smith, K