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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.
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Kazakov, D., Bartlett, M. (2004). Social Learning through Evolution of Language. In: Liardet, P., Collet, P., Fonlupt, C., Lutton, E., Schoenauer, M. (eds) Artificial Evolution. EA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2936. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24621-3_32
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