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PREFINAL DRAFT: Kirby, S. (2000). Syntax without natural selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners.

In Knight, C., editor, The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form, pages 303323. Cambridge University Press.

http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/ simon

Observable Behavior

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New Individual Population Death

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80 Number of Meanings/Size of Grammar

60

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Size of Grammar Meanings

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