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Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution
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Human natural languages use quantifiers as ways to designate the number of objects
of a set. They include numerals, such as ``three'', or circumscriptions, such as ``a few''.
The latter are not only underdetermined but also context dependent.
We provide a cultural-evolution explanation for the emergence of
such quantifiers, focusing in particular on the role of environmental constraints on
strategy choices. Through a series of situated interaction experiments, we show how a
community of robotic agents can self-organize a quantification system.
Different perceptions of the scene make underdetermined quantifiers useful and
environments in which the distribution of objects exhibits some degree of predictability creates
favorable conditions for context-dependent quantifiers.
John Benjamins Publishing Company; February 2012
318 pages; ISBN 9789027274953
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318 pages; ISBN 9789027274953
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