Meaning and Form in a Language Computer Simulation
Soeren Wichmann, Dietrich Stauffer, Christian Schulze, F.Welington S., Lima, Eric W Holman
TL;DR
This paper presents a computer simulation of language, demonstrating how thousands of words and meanings can be modeled, with results aligning with real-world language family sizes and differences.
Contribution
It introduces a novel language simulation model that captures the relationship between word forms and meanings, matching empirical language data.
Findings
The model produces realistic language family sizes.
The Hamming distances between simulated languages align with real-world data.
The simulation offers insights into language evolution and diversity.
Abstract
Thousands of different forms (words) are associated with thousands of different meanings (concepts) in a language computer model. Reasonable agreement with reality is found for the number of languages in a family and the Hamming distances between languages.
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Taxonomy
TopicsLanguage and cultural evolution · Authorship Attribution and Profiling · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence