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PDFView/Open Title: Modelling the Role of Pragmatic Plasticity
in the Evolution of Linguistic Communication Authors: Hoefler,
Stefan H Supervisor(s): Kirby, Simon Hurford, Jim Issue
Date: 2009 Publisher: The University of Edinburgh Abstract: For
a long time, human language has been assumed to be genetically
determined and therefore the product of biological evolution. It
is only within the last decade that researchers have begun to
investigate more closely the domaingeneral cognitive mechanisms
of cultural evolution as an alternative explanation for the
origins of language. Most of this more recen