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ArticleCognitive science2021

Monotone Quantifiers Emerge via Iterated Learning.

Fausto Carcassi, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Jakub Szymanik

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Article in Cognitive science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 authors.

Fausto CarcassiDepartment of Linguistics, University of Amsterdam.ORCID 0000-0001-6843-1737
Shane Steinert-ThrelkeldDepartment of Linguistics, University of Washington.
Jakub SzymanikDepartment of Linguistics, University of Amsterdam.

Funding

European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/20072013) n. STG 716230 CoSaQ
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural languages exhibit many semantic universals, that is, properties of meaning shared across all languages. In this paper, we develop an explanation of one very prominent semantic universal, the monotonicity universal. While the existing work has shown that quantifiers satisfying the monotonicity universal are easier to learn, we provide a more complete explanation by considering the emergence of quantifiers from the perspective of cultural evolution. In particular, we show that quantifiers satisfy the monotonicity universal evolve reliably in an iterated learning paradigm with neural networks as agents.

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Cultural EvolutionLearningHumansLanguageNeural Networks, ComputerSemanticsCultural evolutionGeneralized quantifiersIterated learningNeural networksSemantic universals

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PMID34379338
PMCPMC8459284

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