The evolutionary dynamics of language
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- dc.contributor.author Steels, Lucca
- dc.contributor.author Szathmáry, Eörsca
- dc.date.accessioned 2018-02-14T11:53:02Z
- dc.date.available 2018-02-14T11:53:02Z
- dc.date.issued 2017
- dc.description.abstract The well-established framework of evolutionary dynamics can be applied to the fascinating open problems how human brains are able to acquire and adapt language and how languages change in a population. Schemas for handling grammatical constructions are the replicating unit. They emerge and multiply with variation in the brains of individuals and undergo selection based on their contribution to needed expressive power, communicative success and the reduction of cognitive effort. Adopting this perspective has two major benefits. (i) It makes a bridge to neurobiological models of the brain that have also adopted an evolutionary dynamics point of view, thus opening a new horizon for studying how human brains achieve the remarkably complex competence for language. And (ii) it suggests a new foundation for studying cultural language change as an evolutionary dynamics process. The paper sketches this novel perspective, provides references to empirical data and computational experiments, and points to open problems.
- dc.description.sponsorship This research has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement numbers 308943 (INSIGHT project) and 294332 (EvoEvo project) as well as project GINOP-2.3.2-15-2016-00057 (In the light of evolution).
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- dc.identifier.citation Steels L, Szathmáry E. The evolutionary dynamics of language. Biosystems. 2018 Feb;164:128-37. DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2017.11.003
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2017.11.003
- dc.identifier.issn 0303-2647
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/33853
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Elsevierca
- dc.relation.ispartof Biosystems. 2018 Feb;164:128-37
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/308943
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/294332
- dc.rights © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by- nc-nd/4.0/).
- dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
- dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- dc.subject.keyword Language change
- dc.subject.keyword Language development
- dc.subject.keyword Code biology
- dc.subject.keyword Fluid construction grammar
- dc.subject.keyword Neuronal replicators
- dc.title The evolutionary dynamics of languageca
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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