Meaning and Form in a Language Computer Simulation

Abstract

Thousands of different forms (words) are associated with thousands of different meanings (concepts) in a language computer model. Reasonable agreement with reality is found for the number of languages in a family and the Hamming distances between languages.

13 pages including many figures. Revised version with larger systems and one more author Welington Lima; 15 pages

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