Spatially Distributed Naming Games

Luc Steels () and Angus McIntyre
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Luc Steels: SONY Computer Science Laboratory Paris, 6 rue Amyot, 75003 Paris, France;
Angus McIntyre: SONY Computer Science Laboratory Paris, 6 rue Amyot, 75003 Paris, France

Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), 1999, vol. 01, issue 04, 301-323

Abstract: The paper investigates the dynamical properties of spatially distributed naming games. Naming games are interactions between two agents, a speaker and a hearer, in which the speaker identifies an object using a name. Adaptive naming games imply that speaker and hearer update their lexicons to become better in future games. By engaging in adaptive naming games, a coherent shared vocabulary arises through self-organisation in a population of distributed agents. When the agents are spatially distributed, diversity can be shown to arise, and changes, in population contact lead to language changes.

Keywords: Self-organization; evolutionary linguistics; language contact; language change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1142/S021952599800020X

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