L. Steels’s scientific contributions

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Synthesising the origins of language and meaning
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January 1998

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L. Steels

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... We use agent-based models to study the hypothesis that adult language contact caused morphological simplification, focusing on inflectional verb morphology. In our model, a population of agents play a language game (Steels, 1998), in which they try to communicate concepts (verb+person) using inflected verb forms. The model is initialized with phonetic representations of verb forms in Lewoingu Lamaholot (1) (cf. ...

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Language-specific and universal factors behind morphological simplification: An agent-based modelling study of Alorese
Synthesising the origins of language and meaning
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  • January 1998