{"pk":32744,"title":"Investigating Language Change: A Multi-Agent Neural-Network Based Simulation","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Multiple agents, equipped with a feature-based phonetic model and a connectionist cognitive model, interact via the naming game, with lexicon formation and change as emergent properties of this complex adaptive system. We present a new description of the naming game, situating it as a general, implementation-independent paradigm. Our addition of richerphonetic and cognitive models provides the agents with a greater degree of cognitive validity than does earlier work, while enhancing the flexibility of the system and reproducing empirical results. Feature-based phonetics, piecewise reinforcement learning, and a connectionist architecture with local representation allows language discrimination based on schemata instead of entire utterances.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Long Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9ws495xj","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Scott","middle_name":"C.","last_name":"Stoness","name_suffix":"","institution":"School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University","department":""},{"first_name":"Christopher","middle_name":"","last_name":"Dircks","name_suffix":"","institution":"School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1999-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/32744/galley/23806/download/"}]}