{"id":116429,"date":"2022-08-01T03:00:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T01:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/?p=116429"},"modified":"2022-07-29T11:27:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T09:27:51","slug":"looking-at-how-language-became-so-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/looking-at-how-language-became-so-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking at how language became so complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-teaser\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Using a combination of individual experiments and computational modelling, researchers uncover some big ideas in evolutionary linguistics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/436642.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-116427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/436642.jpg\" alt=\"Looking at how language became so complex\" width=\"583\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/436642.jpg 688w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/436642-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n<div class=\"row c-article__below-teaser\">\n<div class=\"c-article__domains col-12 col-md-auto ng-star-inserted\">\n<div class=\"c-article__domains-icons ng-star-inserted\">\n<div class=\"c-domain-icon c-domain-icon--text\">\n<div class=\"ng-star-inserted\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"c-article__text\">When it comes to language, one could say \u2018you speak as you learn\u2019. \u201cThe fundamental structural features of language are a consequence of how a language is learned,\u201d explains <a class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/profile\/kenny-smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenny Smith<\/a>, a professor at the <a class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Edinburgh<\/a>. \u201cBecause language is passed down from generation to generation, the mistakes and little modifications we make eventually become part of the linguistic system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article__text\">During prior research, which received funding from the EU, Smith helped develop modelling and experimental techniques for studying how languages evolve. Although these kinds of models have done wonders in terms of demonstrating the evolution of languages, they did so by using simple languages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article__text\">With the support of the EU-funded ELC project, Smith has expanded methods pioneered at the University of Edinburgh\u2019s <a class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3xWrEnE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centre for Language Evolution<\/a> to address two key questions relating to language complexity. \u201cFirst, we wanted to know how linguistic complexity influences language learning,\u201d he explains. \u201cSecond, we looked at where any conditions were particularly conducive to developing complexity in a language.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ng-star-inserted\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h2 class=\"c-article__title\">Individual experiments and computational modelling<\/h2>\n<p class=\"c-article__text\">To answer these questions, the ELC project, which received funding from the <a class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/erc.europa.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Research Council<\/a>, used a combination of individual experiments with human participants and computational modelling. \u201cWe did some lovely modelling work on language evolution in complex heterogeneous populations that I am really excited about, and a large experimental study on the evolution of irregularity that is very cool,\u201d notes Smith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article__text\">Out of this work, the project came to several interesting conclusions. For example, when looking at whether a particular kind of organisation in inflectional paradigms facilitates learning, researchers found that its impact was much less than originally thought. \u201cThis opens up an interesting set of questions that I thought had been neatly tidied up and shows that there\u2019s no substitute for testing these sorts of claims empirically,\u201d says Smith.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ng-star-inserted\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h2 class=\"c-article__title\">Mimicking your interlocutor<\/h2>\n<p class=\"c-article__text\">While there\u2019s a growing body of work that emphasises communicative efficiency, where people should focus on being optimally informative and avoid wasted effort, researchers found that that\u2019s not necessarily the case. Instead, they discovered that people tend to copy whatever their interlocutor does. In other words, if your partner behaves in a redundant manner, you\u2019ll follow suit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article__text\">\u201cThis demonstrates the need to integrate these social effects into our theories about efficiency and optimality in language design,\u201d remarks Smith. \u201cHow do languages end up being so well-designed, with complexity in exactly the right places, if so much depends on us just talking like the people we are talking to?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\n<h2 class=\"c-article__title\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Showing what can be done<\/h2>\n<p class=\"c-article__text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Together, these findings show how one can take big ideas in evolutionary <a class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3ynE1uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">linguistics<\/a> and turn them into specific claims that can be experimentally tested using models and experiments. \u201cThere are a fairly limited number of projects that have tried to turn theories about the impact of learning or interaction into hypotheses that can be tested experimentally,\u201d concludes Smith. \u201cOur work may not be the last word on these topics, but I think it shows what can be done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/article\/id\/436642-looking-at-how-language-became-so-complex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Press release &#8211; CORDIS<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a combination of individual experiments and computational modelling, researchers uncover some big ideas in evolutionary linguistics. 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