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cs.CL2020★ 4 cited
Communicative need modulates competition in language change
Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby +1
All living languages change over time. The causes for this are many, one being the emergence and borrowing of new linguistic elements. Competition between the new elements and olde…
cs.CL2020★ 34 cited
Compositional Languages Emerge in a Neural Iterated Learning Model
Yi Ren, Shangmin Guo, Matthieu Labeau +2
The principle of compositionality, which enables natural language to represent complex concepts via a structured combination of simpler ones, allows us to convey an open-ended set…