@inproceedings{d0b7533890864a41979e560254ba601f,
title = "Situated cognition and the role of multi-agent models in explaining language structure",
abstract = "How and where are the universal features of language specified? We consider language users as situated agents acting as conduits for the cultural transmission of language. Using multi-agent computational models we show that certain hallmarks of language are adaptive in the context of cultural transmission. This observation requires us to reconsider the role of innateness in explaining the characteristic structure of language. The relationship between innate bias and the universal features of language becomes opaque when we consider that significant linguistic evolution can occur as a result of cultural transmission.",
keywords = "NATURAL-LANGUAGE, NEURAL NETWORKS, EVOLUTION, SYNTAX",
author = "H Brighton and S Kirby and K Smith",
year = "2003",
language = "English",
isbn = "3540400680",
series = "LECTURE NOTES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE",
publisher = "SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN",
pages = "88--109",
editor = "E Alonso and D Kudenko and D Kazakov",
booktitle = "ADAPTIVE AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS",
note = "2nd Symposium on Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems ; Conference date: 01-04-2002",
}