The Emergence of Phonological Compositionality

dc.rights.license	CC-BY-NC-ND
dc.contributor.advisor	Bloothooft, Gerrit
dc.contributor.author	Maassen, E.M.
dc.date.accessioned	2013-10-22T17:00:58Z
dc.date.available	2013-10-22
dc.date.available	2013-10-22T17:00:58Z
dc.date.issued	2013
dc.identifier.uri	https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/15176
dc.description.abstract	This thesis investigates the effect of cultural transmission of languages on the structure that languages assume, and in particular one aspect: (phonological) compositionality. Based on an Iterated Learning experiment (Verhoef & De Boer (2011)) with an artificial whistled language, that was transmitted from participant to participant, a new experiment was conducted that focusses on the productivity of compositionality. It was established that the compositionality that emerged in the original experiment is productive, which implies that the emergence can be due to a small human learning bias.
dc.description.sponsorship	Utrecht University
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dc.language.iso	en
dc.title	The Emergence of Phonological Compositionality
dc.type.content	Master Thesis
dc.rights.accessrights	Open Access
dc.subject.keywords	Iterated Learning, compositionality, cultural transmission, memetics
dc.subject.courseuu	Cognitive Artificial Intelligence