Monolingual Biases in Simulations of Cultural Transmission

Recent research suggests that the evolution of language is affected by the inductive biases of its learners. I suggest that there is an implicit assumption that one of these biases is to expect a single linguistic system in the input. Given the prevalence

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Perspectives on Culture and Agent-based Simulations Integrating Cultures

Perspectives on Culture and Agent-based Simulations

Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality Volume 3

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Editors Virginia Dignum Delft University of Technology Delft, Zuid-Holland The Netherlands

Frank Dignum Department of Information and Computing Universiteit Utrecht Utrecht, The Netherlands

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