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香港中文大学研究人员 ( 现职)
| 王士元教授 (语言学及现代语言系) |
| Dr James William MINETT (心理学系) |
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| 数位物件识别号 (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540090903198819 |
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摘要This paper proposes a language acquisition framework that includes both intra-generational transmission among children and inter-generational transmission between adults and children. A multi-agent computational model that adopts this framework is designed to evaluate the relative roles of these forms of cultural transmission in language evolution. It is shown that intra-generational transmission helps accelerate the convergence of linguistic knowledge and introduce changes in the communal language, while inter-generational transmission helps preserve an initial language to a certain extent. Due to conventionalisation during transmission, both forms of transmission collectively achieve a dynamic equilibrium of language evolution: On short time-scales, good understandability is maintained among individuals across generations; in the long run, language change is inevitable. ? 2010 Taylor & Francis.
着者Gong T., Minett J.W., Wang W.S.-Y.
期刊名称CONNECTION SCIENCE
出版年份2010
月份http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/3
日期1
卷号22
期次1
出版社Carfax Publishing Ltd.
出版地United Kingdom
页次69 - 85
国际标準期刊号0954-0091
语言英式英语
关键词Computational simulation, Conventionalisation, Cultural transmission, Language evolution
