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We aim to investigate how a shift from material to informational aspects of shared resources can promote language evolution using a computer simulation. We focus on the two levels of coevolution: that of biological and cultural evolution, and that of two aspects of linguistic abilities (cognitive and communicative). We also extend our integrated model of gene-culture coevolution of language mainly by incorporating the resource finiteness (e.g., high: limited food resources; low: replicable beneficial information). The experiments show that a decrease in the resource finiteness could promote the language evolution while decreasing their linguistic diversity in terms of their characteristic variation.
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This work was supported in part by JSPS/MEXT KAKENHI: JP17H06383 in #4903.
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Yonenoh, H., Suzuki, R., Arita, T. (2021). A Shift from Material to Informational Aspects of Shared Resources can Promote Language Evolution. In: Yada, K., et al. Advances in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1357. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73113-7_19
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