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New Frontiers in Language Evolution and Development
Author(s) -
Oller D. Kimbrough,
Dale Rick,
Griebel Ulrike
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
topics in cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.191
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1756-8765
pISSN - 1756-8757
DOI - 10.1111/tops.12204
Subject(s) - language evolution , theme (computing) , variety (cybernetics) , cognitive science , evolutionary developmental biology , computer science , focus (optics) , key (lock) , artificial intelligence , biology , psychology , evolutionary biology , physics , computer security , optics , operating system
This article introduces the Special Issue and its focus on research in language evolution with emphasis on theory as well as computational and robotic modeling. A key theme is based on the growth of evolutionary developmental biology or evo‐devo. The Special Issue consists of 13 articles organized in two sections: A) Theoretical foundations and B) Modeling and simulation studies. All the papers are interdisciplinary in nature, encompassing work in biological and linguistic foundations for the study of language evolution as well as a variety of computational and robotic modeling efforts shedding light on how language may be developed and may have evolved.