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Swarup, S. and Gasser, L. (2008) Simple, but not too Simple: Learnability vs. Functionality in Language Evolution. In A. D. M. Smith and K. Smith and R. Ferrer-i-Cancho, editors, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, pages 299--306. World Scientific.

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