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Evolving language compositionality in a frequency-structured meaning space
Fabio De Ponte, Eloise Gaines-White, Conor Houghton +1
The iterated learning model was introduced to investigate language evolution: the way in which the characteristic properties of human languages have been shaped, at least partly, b…
Image, Word and Thought: A More Challenging Language Task for the Iterated Learning Model
Hyoyeon Lee, Seth Bullock, Conor Houghton
The iterated learning model simulates the transmission of language from generation to generation in order to explore how the constraints imposed by language transmission facilitate…
Investigating the Timescales of Language Processing with EEG and Language Models
Davide Turco, Conor Houghton
This study explores the temporal dynamics of language processing by examining the alignment between word representations from a pre-trained transformer-based language model, and EE…
Modeling language contact with the Iterated Learning Model
Seth Bullock, Conor Houghton
Contact between languages has the potential to transmit vocabulary and other language features; however, this does not always happen. Here, an iterated learning model is used to ex…
An iterated learning model of language change that mixes supervised and unsupervised learning
Jack Bunyan, Seth Bullock, Conor Houghton
The iterated learning model is an agent model which simulates the transmission of of language from generation to generation. It is used to study how the language adapts to pressure…
Investigating grammatical abstraction in language models using few-shot learning of novel noun gender
Priyanka Sukumaran, Conor Houghton, Nina Kazanina
Humans can learn a new word and infer its grammatical properties from very few examples. They have an abstract notion of linguistic properties like grammatical gender and agreement…