Language dynamics is a rapidly growing field that focuses on all processes related to the evolution, emergence, change, competition and extinction of languages. One of the major outcomes from this field of research is that language can be viewed as a complex adaptive dynamical system that evolves through the process of self-organization and self-regulation. According to this viewpoint, a community of language users can be seen as a dynamical system that collectively solves the problem of developing a shared communication framework through the back-and-forth signaling between the participating individuals.
Our group is interested in the interaction of the cognitive and socio-cultural factors that play a key role in language dynamics with a special focus on how a population develops a shared set of names (Naming Game), categories (Category Game), or rules (Rule Dynamics) from scratch. The basic framework is grounded in theories of Language Games, but frequently borrows concepts and methods from the areas of statistical physics and complex systems science. These areas have proven to be extremely powerful in providing various quantitative insights into language emergence and evolution.
2008 |
Puglisi, Andrea; Baronchelli, Andrea; Loreto, Vittorio Cultural route to the emergence of linguistic categories (Journal Article) PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (PNAS), 105 , pp. 7936–7939, 2008. (Links | BibTeX) @article{b,
title = {Cultural route to the emergence of linguistic categories},
author = {Andrea Puglisi and Andrea Baronchelli and Vittorio Loreto},
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Baronchelli, Andrea; Loreto, Vittorio; Steels, Luc In-depth analysis of the Naming Game dynamics: the homogeneous mixing case (Journal Article) INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS C, 19 , pp. 785–812, 2008. (Links | BibTeX) @article{b,
title = {In-depth analysis of the Naming Game dynamics: the homogeneous mixing case},
author = {Andrea Baronchelli and Vittorio Loreto and Luc Steels},
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http://samarcanda.phys.uniroma1.it/vittorioloreto/PAPERS/2008/Baronchelli_arXiv_0803.0398v1_2008.pdf},
year = {2008},
date = {2008-01-01},
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Gong, Tao; Puglisi, Andrea; Loreto, Vittorio; Wang, William Conventionalization of linguistic categories under simple communicative constraints (Inproceeding) Proceedings of 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pp. 1686–1693, 2008. (Abstract | Links | BibTeX) @inproceedings{b,
title = {Conventionalization of linguistic categories under simple communicative constraints},
author = {Tao Gong and Andrea Puglisi and Vittorio Loreto and William S.-Y. Wang},
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abstract = {The language game approach is widely adopted to study conventionalization of linguistic knowledge. Most of contemporary models concentrate on the dynamics of language games in random or predefined social structures, but neglect the role of communicative constraints. This paper adopts one form of language games, the category game, to discuss whether some simple distance-related communicative constraint may affect the conventionalization of linguistic categories. By comparing the simulation results with those based on another form of language games, the naming game, we point out some essential differences between these two games which cause their distinct performances under the same communicative constraint. This study fills the gap between the dynamics of language games in random structures and that in complex networks, and suggests that internal properties of language games may reversely influence communicative constraints and social structures.},
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The language game approach is widely adopted to study conventionalization of linguistic knowledge. Most of contemporary models concentrate on the dynamics of language games in random or predefined social structures, but neglect the role of communicative constraints. This paper adopts one form of language games, the category game, to discuss whether some simple distance-related communicative constraint may affect the conventionalization of linguistic categories. By comparing the simulation results with those based on another form of language games, the naming game, we point out some essential differences between these two games which cause their distinct performances under the same communicative constraint. This study fills the gap between the dynamics of language games in random structures and that in complex networks, and suggests that internal properties of language games may reversely influence communicative constraints and social structures. |
2007 |
Barrat, Alain; Baronchelli, Andrea; Dall'Asta, Luca; Loreto, Vittorio Agreement dynamics on interaction networks with diverse topologies (Journal Article) CHAOS, 17 , pp. 026111–026115, 2007. (Links | BibTeX) @article{b,
title = {Agreement dynamics on interaction networks with diverse topologies},
author = {Alain Barrat and Andrea Baronchelli and Luca Dall'Asta and Vittorio Loreto},
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http://samarcanda.phys.uniroma1.it/vittorioloreto/PAPERS/2007/Barrat_Chaos_2007.pdf},
year = {2007},
date = {2007-01-01},
journal = {CHAOS},
volume = {17},
pages = {026111--026115},
publisher = {American Institute of Physics:2 Huntington Quadrangle, Suite 1NO1:Melville, NY 11747:(800)344-6902, (631)576-2287, EMAIL: subs@aip.org, INTERNET: http://www.aip.org, Fax: (516)349-9704},
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Loreto, Vittorio; Steels, Luc Emergence of Language (Journal Article) NATURE PHYSICS, 3 , pp. 758–760, 2007. (Links | BibTeX) @article{b,
title = {Emergence of Language},
author = {Vittorio Loreto and Luc Steels},
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http://samarcanda.phys.uniroma1.it/vittorioloreto/PAPERS/2007/Loreto_NaturePhys_2007.pdf},
year = {2007},
date = {2007-01-01},
journal = {NATURE PHYSICS},
volume = {3},
pages = {758--760},
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