Recently, David Burkett and Tom Griffiths have looked at iterated learning of multiple languages from multiple teachers (Burkett & Griffiths 2010, see my post here). Here, I’ll describe a simpler model which allows bilingualism. I show that, counter-intuitively, bilingualism may be more stable than monolingualism.
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Learning Multiple languages from Multiple teachers
As Niyogi & Berwick (2009) point out, there is a tendency in modelling of Linguistic Evolution to assume chains of single learners inheriting single grammars from single teachers. This is, of course, not realistic – we learn language from many people and people can speak more than one language. However, Niyogi & Berwick suggest deeper objections.
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