Exemplar models, evolution and language change

Exemplar models, evolution and language change1

Evidence supporting a rich memory for associations suggests that people can store perceptual details in the form of exemplars. The resulting particulate model of category contents allows the application of evolution theory in modeling category change, because variation in categorized percepts is reflected in the distribution of exemplars in a category. Within a production-perception feedback lo...

Probabilistic Models of Evolution and Language Change

Probabilistic Models of Evolution and Language Change

Language Evolution and Change

Programme for " Exemplar Based Models of Language

ions and the retention of exemplars of which those abstractions are composed. The work by Batali (2002), who investigates the emergence of semantic structures in language acquisition and evolution, can also be viewed in

Social evolution and language change

We propose substantive universals in the relationship between social evolution and language change. Social anthropologists have categorized societies into roughly four broad types by social organization: bands, tribes, chiefdoms and states. This classification is evolutionary in the sense that the society types arose in human history in the sequence given above. We compare these society types t...