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Abstract

Gardenfors (2000) argues that natural denotations of natural language predicates are convex regions in a conceptual space. Using techniques from evolutionary game theory, the paper shows that this convexity criterion is a consequence of the evolutionary dynamics of language use.

@inproceedings{jager06convexMeaning,
  author={Gerhard Jager},
  title={Convex meanings and evolutionary stability},
  year={2006},
  pages={139-144},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/jager06convexMeaning.html}
}