Language evolution might have preferred certain prior social configurations over others. Experiments conducted with models of different social structures (varying subgroup interactions and the presence of a dominant interlocutor) suggest that having isolated agent groups rather than an interconnected agent is more advantageous for the emergence of a social communication system. Accordingly, distinctive groups that are closely connected by communication yield systems less like natural language than fully isolated groups inhabiting the same world, while the addition of a dominant male who is asymmetrically favoured as a hearer, and equally likely to be a speaker has no positive influence on the quality of the emergent communal language. © 2011 Springer-Verlag London Limited.
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Bachwerk, M., & Vogel, C. (2011). Modelling social structures and hierarchies in language evolution. In Res. and Dev. in Intelligent Syst. XXVII: Incorporating Applications and Innovations in Intel. Sys. XVIII - AI 2010, 30th SGAI Int. Conf. on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intel. (pp. 49–62). Springer London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-130-1_4
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