Physics – Physics and Society
Scientific paper
2007-12-27
Physics
Physics and Society
19 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
A simple model of language evolution, proposed in \cite{K_N}, is characterized by a pay-off in communicative function, and by an error in learning, that measures the accuracy in language acquisition. In the mean field approximation, this model exhibits a critical coherence threshold, i.e. a minimal accuracy in the learning process is required to maintain linguistic coherence. In this work, we analyse in detail the effects of different fitness based dynamics driving linguistic coherence and of the network of interactions on the nature of the coherence threshold, by performing numerical simulations and theoretical analyses of generalized replicator-mutator dynamics in populations with two types of structure: fully connected networks and regular random graphs. We find that although the threshold of the replicator-mutator evolutionary model is robust with respect to the structure of the network of contacts, the coherence threshold of related fitness driven models may be strongly affected by this feature.
da Gama Margarida M. Telo
Nunes A. A.
Tavares José Maria
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