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Authoritative: http://springerlink.metapress.com/openur...olume=2936&spage=397   (Publisher's PDF... likely be available here.)

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Abstract

This paper presents an approach to simulating the evolution of language in which communication is viewed as an emerging phenomenon with both genetic and social components. A model is presented in which a population of agents is able to evolve a shared grammatical language from a purely lexical one, with critical elements of the faculty of language developed as a result of the need to navigate in and exchange information about the environment.

@inproceedings{kazakov04EA,
  author={Dimitar Kazakov and Mark Bartlett},
  title={Social Learning through Evolution of Language},
  year={2004},
  pages={397-408},
  address={Marseilles, France},
  editor={Pierre Liardet and et al.},
  booktitle={Artificial Evolution: 6th International Conference},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/kazakov04EA.html}
}