语言范畴产生的文化路径
Cultural route to the emergence of linguistic categories
摘要：
类别提供了对世界的粗粒度描述。一个基本问题是，范畴是否只是反映了自然的基本结构，还是来自人类之间以及人类与环境之间的复杂互动。在这里，我们解决这个问题，通过模拟人口的个人共同发展自己的系统的符号和意义，通过玩基本的语言游戏。其核心结果是出现了一个由两个不同层次组成的层次类别结构：一个基本层，负责对环境的精细区分，一个共享的语言层，将感知组合在一起，以保证交际成功。值得注意的是，语言范畴的数量是有限的，正如在自然语言中所观察到的那样。
英文摘要：
Categories provide a coarse grained description of the world. A fundamental question is whether categories simply mirror an underlying structure of nature, or instead come from the complex interactions of human beings among themselves and with the environment. Here we address this question by modelling a population of individuals who co-evolve their own system of symbols and meanings by playing elementary language games. The central result is the emergence of a hierarchical category structure made of two distinct levels: a basic layer, responsible for fine discrimination of the environment, and a shared linguistic layer that groups together perceptions to guarantee communicative success. Remarkably, the number of linguistic categories turns out to be finite and small, as observed in natural languages.
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