The evolution of grounded spatial language

Michael Spranger

ISBN 10: 3944675460 / ISBN 13: 9783944675466

Verlag: Language Science Press, 2016

Beschreibung

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book presents groundbreaking robotic experiments on how and why spatial language evolves. It provides detailed explanations of the origins of spatial conceptualization strategies, spatial categories, landmark systems and spatial grammar by tracing the interplay of environmental conditions, communicative and cognitive pressures. The experiments discussed in this book go far beyond previous approaches in grounded language evolution. For the first time, agents can evolve not only particular lexical systems but also evolve complex conceptualization strategies underlying the emergence of category systems and compositional semantics. Moreover, many issues in cognitive science, ranging from perception and conceptualization to language processing, had to be dealt with to instantiate these experiments, so that this book contributes not only to the study of language evolution but to the investigation of the cognitive bases of spatial language as well.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783944675466

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The evolution of grounded spatial language
• Verlag: Language Science Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3944675460
• ISBN-13: 9783944675466
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 240B x 170 H x 18 T Millimeter Breite: 240 mm, Höhe: 170 mm, Tiefe: 18 mm
• Gewicht: 538 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

This book presents groundbreaking robotic experiments on how and why spatial language evolves. It provides detailed explanations of the origins of spatial conceptualization strategies, spatial categories, landmark systems and spatial grammar by tracing the interplay of environmental conditions, communicative and cognitive pressures. The experiments discussed in this book go far beyond previous approaches in grounded language evolution. For the first time, agents can evolve not only particular lexical systems but also evolve complex conceptualization strategies underlying the emergence of category systems and compositional semantics. Moreover, many issues in cognitive science, ranging from perception and conceptualization to language processing, had to be dealt with to instantiate these experiments, so that this book contributes not only to the study of language evolution but to the investigation of the cognitive bases of spatial language as well.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Spranger is a researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc. based in Tokyo, Japan.