New Frontiers in Language Evolution and Development.
This article introduces the Special Issue and its focus on research in language evolution with emphasis on theory as well as computational and robotic modeling. A key theme is based on the growth of evolutionary developmental biology or evo-devo. The Special Issue consists of 13 articles organized in two sections: A) Theoretical foundations and B) Modeling and simulation studies. All the papers are interdisciplinary in nature, encompassing work in biological and linguistic foundations for the study of language evolution as well as a variety of computational and robotic modeling efforts shedding light on how language may be developed and may have evolved.
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Memphis.|Institute for Intelligent Systems, The University of Memphis.|The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research.
D Kimbrough
DK
Oller
Cognitive and Information Sciences, University of California Merced.
Rick
R
Dale
Institute for Intelligent Systems, The University of Memphis.|The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research.
Ulrike
U
Griebel
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D015509:Developmental Biology / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics; D012371:Robotics / Q000379:methods*
Developmental systems; Evo-devo; Evolution of language