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Swarup S, Gasser L. The Iterated Classification Game: A New Model of the Cultural Transmission of Language. Adapt Behav. 2009;17(3):213-235doi: 10.1177/1059712309105818.
Swarup, S., & Gasser, L. (2009). The Iterated Classification Game: A New Model of the Cultural Transmission of Language. Adaptive behavior, 17(3), 213-235. https://doi.org/10.1177/1059712309105818
Swarup, Samarth, and Gasser, Les. "The Iterated Classification Game: A New Model of the Cultural Transmission of Language." Adaptive behavior vol. 17,3 (2009): 213-235. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1059712309105818
Swarup S, Gasser L. The Iterated Classification Game: A New Model of the Cultural Transmission of Language. Adapt Behav. 2009;17(3):213-235. doi: 10.1177/1059712309105818. PMID: 20190877; PMCID: PMC2828955.
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Adapt Behav. 2009;17(3):213-235. doi: 10.1177/1059712309105818.

The Iterated Classification Game: A New Model of the Cultural Transmission of Language.

Adaptive behavior

Samarth Swarup, Les Gasser

Affiliations

  1. Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, [email protected].

PMID: 20190877 PMCID: PMC2828955 DOI: 10.1177/1059712309105818

Abstract

The Iterated Classification Game (ICG) combines the Classification Game with the Iterated Learning Model (ILM) to create a more realistic model of the cultural transmission of language through generations. It includes both learning from parents and learning from peers. Further, it eliminates some of the chief criticisms of the ILM: that it does not study grounded languages, that it does not include peer learning, and that it builds in a bias for compositional languages. We show that, over the span of a few generations, a stable linguistic system emerges that can be acquired very quickly by each generation, is compositional, and helps the agents to solve the classification problem with which they are faced. The ICG also leads to a different interpretation of the language acquisition process. It suggests that the role of parents is to initialize the linguistic system of the child in such a way that subsequent interaction with peers results in rapid convergence to the correct language.

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