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A feedback loop between human self-domestication and dog domestication contributing to language evolution? ...
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A swarm robotics model of the cultural evolution of language ...
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Swarm Robotics, which studies collective behaviors of large populations of robots with simple embodied cognition, is an ideal testbed for studying the cultural evolution of language. Our goal is to expand existing simulations in order to explore a dominant theory in evolutionary linguistics - the self-domestication hypothesis - which suggests that reduced reactive aggression led to the sophistication of the cultural niche, enabling the complexification of languages. Current swarm robotics models, however, lack several crucial features that are considered prerequisites for this process. Robots are typically collaborative, homogenous, with little to no memory. To mimic self-domestication, an evolutionary advantage for prosociality needs to be introduced, and robots need to be treated as distinct individuals. In our model, robots explore their environment while playing a language game. Crucially, we include two novel features: (1) robot individuation: robots have a partner-specificity memory, keeping track of ...
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Society and Culture; Sociolinguistics; Swarm Robotics
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.48448/5m7j-3628 https://underline.io/lecture/21956-a-swarm-robotics-model-of-the-cultural-evolution-of-language
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Loanwords in basic vocabulary mediate the borrowing profile of a language ...
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