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Week 1 (1/29) Introduction
Week 2 (2/5) Philosophy
- Joshua M. Epstein. 2006. Generative Social Science. Princeton University Press. Chapter 1, pp. 4–46. (slides) [Brandon]
- Steven L. Peck. 2004. “Simulation as experiment: a philosophical reassessment for biological modeling.” Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19:530–534. [Farrell and Mark]
- Aki Lehtinen and Jaakko Kuorikoski. 2007. “Computing the perfect model: Why do economists shun simulation.” Philosophy of Science 74:304–329. [Jamie]
Week 3 (2/12) Philosophy (cont.)
- Volker Grimm, et al. 2005. “Pattern-oriented modeling of agent-based complex systems: Lessons from ecology.” Science 310:987–991. [Mark]
- Volker Grimm, et al. 2006. “A standard protocol for describing individual-based and agent-based models.” Ecological Modelling 198:115–126. [Sara]
- Introduction to evolution [Rob]
Week 4 (2/19) Evolution of language from non-language: Phonetics
- Jason Noble, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, and Seth Bullock. 2001. "Adaptive factors in the evolution of signaling systems." In A. Cangelosi & D. Parisi (eds.), Simulating the Evolution of Language. London: Springer Verlag. [Sara]
- Daniel Livingstone and Colin Fyfe. 2000. "Modelling language-physiology coevolution." In C. Knight, J. R. Hurford, & M. Studdert-Kennedy (eds.), The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Albina]
Week 5 (2/26) Evolution of language from non-language: Phonetics (cont.)
- Johan Liljencrants and Björn Lindblom. 1972. "Numerical simulation of vowel quality systems: The role of perceptual contrast." Language 48:839-862. [Steven]
- Bart de Boer. 2000. "Self organization in vowel systems." Journal of Phonetics 28:441–465. [
Dan]
Week 6 (3/5) Evolution of language from non-language: Phonetics (cont.)
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- Pierre-Yves Oudeyer. 2005. "The self-organization of speech sounds." Journal of Theoretical Biology 233:435-449. [
Mark] - Willem Zuidema and Bart de Boer. 2009. "The evolution of combinatorial phonology." Journal of Phonetics [
Jamie]
Week 7 (3/12) Evolution of language from non-language: Lexicon
- James Hurford. 1989. "Biological evolution of the Saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device." Lingua 77:187-222. [Albina]
- Luc Steels. 1996. "Emergent adaptive lexicons." In P. Maes (ed.), From animals to animats 4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Simulating Adaptive Behavior. MIT Press. [Steven]
Week 8 (3/19) Evolution of language from non-language: Lexicon (cont.)
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- Martin A. Nowak, Joshua B. Plotkin, and David C. Krakauer. 1999. "The evolutionary language game." Journal of Theoretical Biology 200:147-162. [Brandon]
- Andrew D. M. Smith. 2005. "Mutual exclusivity: Communicative success despite conceptual divergence." In M. Tallerman (ed.), Language Origins: Perspectives on Evolution. Oxford University Press. [Farrell]
- Paul Vogt. 2004. "Minimum cost and the emergence of the Zipf-Mandelbrot law." In J. Pollack, M. Bedau, P. Husbands, T. Ikegami and R. A. Watson (eds.), Artificial Life IX: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. The MIT Press. [Rob]
Week 9 (3/26) Evolution of language from non-language: Compositionality
- John Batali. 1998. "Computational simulations of the emergence of grammar." In J.R. Hurford, et al. (eds.), Approaches to the Evolution of Language. Cambridge University Press. [Dan]
- Simon Kirby. 2000. "Syntax without natural selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners." In C. Knight et al. (eds) The Evolutionary Emergence of Language. Cambridge University Press. [Jamie]
Spring Break (4/2)
Week 10 (4/9) Evolution of language from non-language: Compositionality (cont.)
- Bradley Tonkes and Janet Wiles. 2002. "Methodological issues in simulating the emergence of language." In A. Wray (ed.), The Transition to Language. Oxford Univerisity Press. [Brandon]
- E.J. Briscoe. 2005. "Coevolution of the language faculty and language(s) with decorrelated encodings." In M. Tallerman (ed.), Language Origins: Perspectives on Evolution. Oxford University Press. [Rob]
Week 11 (4/16) Evolution of language from non-language: Recursion
- John Batali. 2002. "The negotiation and acquisition of recursive grammars as a result of competition among exemplars." In T. Briscoe (ed.), Linguistic Evolution Through Language Acquisition. Cambridge University Press. [Steven]
- Simon Kirby. 2002. "Learning, bottlenecks, and the evolution of recursive syntax." In T. Briscoe (ed.), Linguistic Evolution Through Language Acquisition. Cambridge University Press. [Dan]
Week 12 (4/23) Baldwin Effect
- Stefano Nolfi, Jeffrey L. Elman, and Domenico Parisi. 1994. "Learning and evolution in neural networks." Adaptive Behavior 3:5–28. [Jamie]
- Natalia L. Komarova and Martin A. Nowak. 2002. "Population dynamics of grammar acquisition." In A. Cangelosi and D. Parisi (eds.), Simulating the Evolution of Language. Springer Verlag. [Albina]
Week 13 (4/30) Baldwin Effect (cont.)
- William J. Turkel. 2002. "The learning guided evolution of natural language." In In T. Briscoe (ed.), Linguistic Evolution Through Language Acquisition. Cambridge University Press. [Rob]
Week 14 (5/7) Language change in social networks
- E.J. Briscoe. 2009. "What can formal or computational models tell us about how (much) language shaped the brain?" In D. Bickerton, et al. (eds.), Biological Foundations and Origins of Syntax: Proc. of Ernst Strungmann Forum Workshop. MIT Press. [Sara]
- Jinyun Ke, Tao Gong, and William S-Y Wang. 2008. "Language change and social networks." Communications in Computational Physics 3:935–949. [Dan]
- John Nerbonne. 2008. "Measuring the diffusion of linguistic change." Conference on Cultural and Linguistic Diversity. AHRC Centre for Evolution of Cultural Diversity, London, Dec. 9-13. [Steven]
Week 15 (5/14) Project presentations
- Sara, Albina, Steven, Jamie, Dan, Brandon