Compression and communication in the cultural evolution of linguistic structure

•We provide a cultural evolutionary account of the origins of linguistic structure.•Cultural evolution delivers a trade-off between compressibility and expressivity.•A compression pressure arises when naive learners influence language evolution.•An expressivity pressure arises due to the use of lang...

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Published in:	Cognition Vol. 141; pp. 87 - 102
Main Authors:	Kirby, Simon, Tamariz, Monica, Cornish, Hannah, Smith, Kenny
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.08.2015
Subjects:	Adult Communication Cultural Evolution Cultural transmission Female Humans Iterated learning Language Language evolution Learning Male Models, Psychological Psycholinguistics Young Adult Language evolution Cultural transmission Iterated learning
ISSN:	0010-0277, 1873-7838, 1873-7838
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