Emergence of Communication and Language Book

List of Contributors     ix
Introduction
Current Work and Open Problems: A Road-Map for Research into the Emergence of Communication and Language   Chrystopher L. Nehaniv   Caroline Lyon   Angela Cangelosi     1
Empirical Investigations on Human Language
Evolving Meaning: The Roles of Kin Selection, AUomothering and Paternal Care in Language Evolution   W. Tecumseh Fitch     29
'Needs only' Analysis in Linguistic Ontogeny and Phylogeny   Alison Wray     53
Clues from Information Theory Indicating a Phased Emergence of Grammar   Caroline Lyon   Chrystopher L. Nehaniv   Bob Dickerson     71
Emergence of a Communication System: International Sign   Rachel Rosenstock     87
Distributed Language: Biomechanics, Functions, and the Origins of Talk   Stephen J. Cowley     105
Synthesis of Communication and Language in Artificial Systems
The Recruitment Theory of Language Origins   Luc Steels     129
In Silico Evolutionary Developmental Neurobiology and the Origin of Natural Language   Eors Szathmary   Zoltan Szatmary   Peter Ittzes   Gergo Orban   Istvan Zachar   Ferenc Huszar   Anna Fedor   Mate Varga   Szabolcs Szamado     151
Communication inNatural and Artificial Organisms: Experiments in Evolutionary Robotics   Davide Marocco   Stefano Nolfi     189
From Vocal Replication to Shared Combinatorial Speech Codes: A Small Step for Evolution, A Big Step for Language   Pierre-Yves Oudeyer     207
Learning and Transition of Symbols: Towards a Dynamical Model of a Symbolic Individual   Takashi Hashimoto   Akira Masumi     223
Language Change among 'Memoryless Learners' Simulated in Language Dynamics Equations   Makoto Nakamura   Takashi Hashimoto   Satoshi Tojo     237
The Evolution of Meaning-Space Structure through Iterated Learning   Simon Kirby     253
The Emergence of Language: How to Simulate It   Domenico Parisi   Marco Mirolli     269
Lexical Acquisition with and without Metacommunication   Jonathan Ginzburg   Zoran Macura     287
Agent Based Modelling of Communication Costs: Why Information Can Be Free   Ivana Cace   Joanna J. Bryson     305
Language Change and the Inference of Meaning   Andrew D. M. Smith     323
Language, Perceptual Categories and their Interaction: Insights from Computational Modelling   Tony Belpaeme   Joris Bleys     339
Insights from Animal Communication
Emergence of Linguistic Communication: Studies on Grey Parrots   Irene M. Pepperberg     355
A Possible Role for Selective Masking in the Evolution of Complex, Learned Communication Systems   Graham R. S. Ritchie   Simon Kirby     387
The Natural History of Human Language: Bridging the Gaps without Magic   Bjorn Merker   Kazuo Okanoya     403
Neural Substrates for String-Context Mutual Segmentation: A Path to Human Language   Kazuo Okanoya   Bjorn Merker     421
Index     435