Language Emergence

Language Emergence.

Language emergence describes moments in historical time when nonlinguistic systems become linguistic. Because language can be invented de novo in the manual modality, this offers insight into the emergence of language in ways that the oral modality cannot. Here we focus on homesign, gestures developed by deaf individuals who cannot acquire spoken language and have not been exposed to sign langu...

Language Emergence for Activities

Language development is an important aspect of human cognitive processes. Robotic and Artificial Intelligent models have been used to simulate language emergence situations [6]. The aim is to study the process of specification of the universal features of language and emergence of structures (symantic/syntactic) in human language through a model known as Language Games. The games consist of sho...

Emergence of Language in Spatial Language Games

Prehlasujem, že na tejto práci som pracoval samostatne. I would like to thank my supervisor RNDr. Martin Takáč for stimulating discussions and valuable advice throughout my work on the thesis.

Emergence of Second Language Structure

The emergence of temporal language in Nicaraguan Sign Language.

Understanding what uniquely human properties account for the creation and transmission of language has been a central goal of cognitive science. Recently, the study of emerging sign languages, such as Nicaraguan Sign Language (NSL), has offered the opportunity to better understand how languages are created and the roles of the individual learner and the community of users. Here, we examined the...