lLanguages
can adapt to pressures on production and parsing
lGeneralisations
are better replicators
lGiven
structured meaning-spaces:
ˇCompositional
languages are more stable
ˇCompositional
languages can emerge with invention. Depends on:
lSize
of signal space
lSize
of “bottleneck”
lPopulation
structure
lEnvironment
structure
lMeaning-space
structure