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Multiple agents, equipped with a feature-based phonetic model and a connectionist cognitive model, interact via the naming game paradigm, such that lexicon formation and change is an emergent property of this complex adaptive system. Our system converges on a coherent lexicon and effective language change is demonstrated, even in the absence of a changing population, which brings into question claims made in earlier work. We argue that our phonetic and cognitive models tend towards a cognitive validity which was absent from previous work in this area, while maintaining the flexibility of other systems.
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Dircks, C., Stoness, S.C. (1999). Effective Lexicon Change in the Absence of Population Flux. In: Floreano, D., Nicoud, JD., Mondada, F. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life. ECAL 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1674. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48304-7_94
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