Mathematical and computational models of language evolution
part of the DGfS Sommerschule 2013 "Sprachentwicklung: Evolution, Wandel Erwerb", Berlin, August 2013
Syllabus
| date | topic | literature |
|---|---|---|
| Monday, August 12 |
History of
evolutionary thought in biology |
Futuyma 1998, chapter 2 |
| Tuesday, August 13 |
Doing computer simulations with R R-script from class |
Jones et al. 2009, chapter 1-6, 14/15 |
| Wednesday, August 14 |
Universal Darwinism and the Price equation R-script from class |
Clark 2010 Jäger 2008 |
| Thursday, August 15 |
Game theory: basics R-script from class |
|
| Friday, August 16 |
Evolutionary game theory |
|
| Monday, August 19 |
Signaling games | |
| Tuesday, August 20 |
Applications: case marking, vowel systems, sim-max games | |
| Wednesday, August 21 |
Evolution of signaling games in spatially structured populations (guest lecture by Roland Mühlenbernd) |
Literature:
- Clark, Brady, Evolutionary frameworks for language change: The Price equation approach. Language and Linguistics Compass. 4(6): 363-376, 2010.
- Futuyma, Douglas J., Evolutionary Biology, Sunderland (Mass.) 1998
- Jäger, Gerhard, Language evolution
and George Price's "General theory of selection", in
Robin Cooper and Ruth Kempson (eds.), Language in Flux: Dialogue
Coordination, Language Variation, Change and Evolution,
College Publications, 53-82, 2008.
- Jones, Owen, Robert Maillardet, and Andrew Robinson, Introduction
to Scientific Programming and Simulation Using R, Boca Raton/London/New
York, 2009.