Modelling the Evolution of Linguistic Diversity

Some recent Artificial Life models have attempted to explain the origin of linguistic diversity with varying conclusions and explanations. We posit, contrary to some existing Artificial Life work, that linguistic diversity should naturally emerge in spatially organised populations of language learners, and this is supported by our experimental work and by recent literature.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: ECAL
• Authors: Daniel Livingstone, Colin Fyfe
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, Artificial Life Work, ECAL 1999, Linguistic Diversity