Emergence of Communication and Language (eBook)

Caroline Lyon, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Angelo Cangelosi (Herausgeber)

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2010 | 2007
XI, 438 Seiten
Springer London (Verlag)
978-1-84628-779-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Current Work and Open Problems: A Road-Map for Research into the Emergence of Communication and Language Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Caroline Lyon, and Angelo Cangelosi 1.1. Introduction This book brings together work on the emergence of communication and language from researchers working in a broad array of scientific paradigms in North America, Europe, Japan and Africa. We hope that its multi-disciplinary approach will encourage cross-fertilization and promote further advances in this active research field. The volume draws on diverse disciplines, including linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, ethology, anthropology, robotics, and computer science. Computational simulations of the emergence of phenomena associated with communication and language play a key role in illuminating some of the most significant issues, and the renewed scientific interest in language emergence has benefited greatly from research in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. The book starts with this road map chapter by the editors, pointing to the ways in which disparate disciplines can inform and stimulate each other. It examines the role of simulations as a novel way to express theories in science, and their contribution to the development of a new approach to the study of the emergence of communication and language. We will also discuss and collect the most promising directions and grand challenge problems for future research. The present volume, is organized into three parts: I. Empirical Investi- tions on Human Language, II. Synthesis and Simulation of Communication and Language in Artificial Systems, and III. Insights from Animal Communication.

Inhalt

TABLE OF CONTENTS 6
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 10
Introduction. Current Work and Open Problems: A Road- Map for Research into the Emergence of Communication and Language 13
Empirical Investigations on Human Language 40
Evolving Meaning: The Roles of Kin Selection, Allomothering and Paternal Care in Language Evolution 41
‘Needs only’ Analysis in Linguistic Ontogeny and Phylogeny 64
Clues from Information Theory Indicating a Phased Emergence of Grammar 82
Emergence of a Communication System: International Sign 97
Distributed Language: Biomechanics, Functions, and the Origins of Talk 114
Synthesis of Communication and Language in Artificial Systems 137
The Recruitment Theory of Language Origins 138
In silico Evolutionary Developmental Neurobiology and the Origin of Natural Language 160
Communication in Natural and Artificial Organisms: Experiments in Evolutionary Robotics 197
From Vocal Replication to Shared Combinatorial Speech Codes: A Small Step for Evolution, A Big Step for Language 214
Learning and Transition of Symbols: Towards a Dynamical Model of a Symbolic Individual 229
Language Change among ‘Memoryless Learners’ Simulated in Language Dynamics Equations 243
The Evolution of Meaning-Space Structure through Iterated Learning 259
The Emergence of Language: How to Simulate It 274
Lexical Acquisition with and without Metacommunication 291
Agent Based Modelling of Communication Costs: Why Information Can Be Free 308
Language Change and the Inference of Meaning 325
Language, Perceptual Categories and their Interaction: Insights from Computational Modelling 340
Insights from Animal Communication 355
Emergence of Linguistic Communication: Studies on Grey Parrots 356
A Possible Role for Selective Masking in the Evolution of Complex, Learned Communication Systems 388
The Natural History of Human Language: Bridging the Gaps without Magic 403
Neural Substrates for String-Context Mutual Segmentation: A Path to Human Language 421
INDEX 435

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.3.2010
• Zusatzinfo: XI, 438 p. 89 illus.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Office Programme ► Outlook
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
• Schlagworte: Agents • Artificial Intelligence • Cognition • Computational Modelling • Evolution • Intelligent Agents • language • learning • Linguistic communication • Linguistics • Modeling • natural language • robot • Robotics • Speech Recognition
• ISBN-10: 1-84628-779-0 / 1846287790
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84628-779-4 / 9781846287794