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The Communicative Lexicon Hypothesis

Monday, October 26th, 2009

The Communicative Lexicon Hypothesis – Piantadosi, Tily & Gibson (2009) Presents two experiments to support the Communicative Lexicon Hypothesis which states that human lexical systems are efficient solutions to the problem of communication for the human language processor.  Shows that information or predictability in context based on trigrams is a better predictor of word length […]

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Language Evolution and Information Theory

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Language Evolution and Information Theory – Plotkin & Nowak (2000) Links Evolutionary Game Theory to Shannon’s Information Theory. Shows that with a noisy channel their is a limit to how much adding signals can improve fitness. The limit can be achieved by using combinations of signals to form words so that now a group of […]

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