Population-level neutral model already explains linguistic patterns

R. Alexander Bentley, Paul Ormerod, Stephen J. Shennan

2011-03-23articleProceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences15 citationsgreen

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Language and cultural evolution Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Evolution and Genetic Dynamics

Abstract

In customizing the neutral model for language transmission, Reali & Griffiths [[1][1]] have added a new, ‘Bayesian’ learning interpretation to a neutral model that has been used in cultural evolution studies for some time (e.g. [[2][2]–[6][3]]). While Reali & Griffiths [[1][1], p. 435] dismiss

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