{"id":19,"date":"2009-10-23T16:53:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T00:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/?p=19"},"modified":"2009-11-15T17:03:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T01:03:05","slug":"language-evolution-and-information-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/2009\/10\/23\/language-evolution-and-information-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Evolution and Information Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Language Evolution and Information Theory &#8211; Plotkin &amp; Nowak (2000)<\/p>\n<p>Links Evolutionary Game Theory to Shannon&#8217;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 signals designate a state rather than individual signals.  This allows the communication channel to reduce error exponentially in the number of signals and surpass the fitness limit of a non combinatorial signal system.  Provides a framework for modeling different levels of linguistic structure in a probabilistic manner and to examine the dynamics of such systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Language Evolution and Information Theory &#8211; Plotkin &amp; Nowak (2000) Links Evolutionary Game Theory to Shannon&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}