This paper presents computer simulations which investigate the effect that different group sizes have on the emergence of compositional structures in languages. The simulations are based on a model that integrates the language game model with the iterated learning model. The simulations show that compositional structures tend to emerge more extensively for larger groups, which has a positive effect on the time in which the languages develop and on communicative success, which may even have an optimal group size. A mathematical analysis of the time of convergence is presented that provides an approximate explanation of the results. The paper concludes that increasing group sizes among humans could not only have triggered the origins of language, but also facilitated the evolution of more complex languages. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
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Vogt, P. (2007). Group size effects on the emergence of compositional structures in language. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4648 LNAI, pp. 405–414). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74913-4_41
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