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Cross-situational learning of large lexicons with finite memory
James Holehouse, Richard A. Blythe
Cross-situational word learning, wherein a learner combines information about possible meanings of a word across multiple exposures, has previously been shown to be a very powerful…
Symmetry and Universality in Language Change
Richard A Blythe
We investigate mechanisms for language change within a framework where an unconventional signal for a meaning is first innovated, and then subsequently propagated through a speech…
Hierarchy of Scales in Language Dynamics
Richard A. Blythe
Methods and insights from statistical physics are finding an increasing variety of applications where one seeks to understand the emergent properties of a complex interacting syste…
Word learning under infinite uncertainty
Richard A. Blythe, Andrew D. M. Smith, Kenny Smith
Language learners must learn the meanings of many thousands of words, despite those words occurring in complex environments in which infinitely many meanings might be inferred by t…
Stochastic dynamics of lexicon learning in an uncertain and nonuniform world
Rainer Reisenauer, Kenny Smith, Richard A. Blythe
We study the time taken by a language learner to correctly identify the meaning of all words in a lexicon under conditions where many plausible meanings can be inferred whenever a…
Neutral evolution: A null model for language dynamics
R. A. Blythe
We review the task of aligning simple models for language dynamics with relevant empirical data, motivated by the fact that this is rarely attempted in practice despite an abundanc…