TY - JOUR
T1 - Automata Networks for Memory Loss Effects in the Formation of Linguistic Conventions
AU - Vera, Javier
AU - Goles, Eric
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors like to thank CONICYT-Chile under the Doctoral scholarship 21140288 (J.V.) and the Grants FONDECYT 11400090 (E.G.), ECOS BASAL-CMM (DIM, U. Chile) (E.G.), ECOS C12E05 (E.G.). Finally, the authors acknowledge to anonymous referees for useful commentaries.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2016/6/1
Y1 - 2016/6/1
N2 - This work attempts to give new theoretical insights into the absence of intermediate stages in the evolution of language. In particular, a mathematical model, based on automata networks, is proposed with the purpose to answer a crucial question: How a population of language users can reach agreement on linguistic conventions? To describe the appearance of drastic transitions in the development of language, an extremely simple model of working memory is adopted: at each time step, language users simply lose part of their word memories according to a forgetfulness parameter. Through computer simulations on low-dimensional lattices, sharp transitions at critical values of the parameter are described.
AB - This work attempts to give new theoretical insights into the absence of intermediate stages in the evolution of language. In particular, a mathematical model, based on automata networks, is proposed with the purpose to answer a crucial question: How a population of language users can reach agreement on linguistic conventions? To describe the appearance of drastic transitions in the development of language, an extremely simple model of working memory is adopted: at each time step, language users simply lose part of their word memories according to a forgetfulness parameter. Through computer simulations on low-dimensional lattices, sharp transitions at critical values of the parameter are described.
KW - Automata networks
KW - Linguistic conventions
KW - Sharp transition
KW - Working memory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84949954681&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s12559-015-9371-7
DO - 10.1007/s12559-015-9371-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84949954681
VL - 8
SP - 462
EP - 466
JO - Cognitive Computation
JF - Cognitive Computation
SN - 1866-9956
IS - 3
ER -