title: Key issues for the prosperity of modelling research of language evolution: Reply to comments on "Modelling language evolution: Examples and predictions".
authors.affiliation: Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Electronic address: gtojty@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Lan
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shuai
authors.affiliation: Institute of Linguistics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Menghan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003468:Cultural Evolution; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language
keywords: Complex adaptive system; Computer modelling; Evolutionary linguistics