Language and cultural evolution

Humans use signs, e.g., sentences in a spoken language, for communication and thought. Hence, symbol systems like language are crucial for our communication with other agents and adaptation to our real-world environment. The symbol systems we use in our human society adaptively and dynamically change over time. In the…

• EMRE UĞUR
• ERHAN ÖZTOP

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Why do some cultural items catch on and become more popular than others? Language is one of the basic foundations of culture. But what leads some phrases to become more culturally successful? There are multiple ways to convey the same thing and phrases with similar meanings often act as substitutes, competing for usag…

• EZGİ AKPINAR UYSAL

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• İLYAS ÇİÇEKLİ

We study how a robot can link concepts represented by adjectives and nouns in language with its own sensorimotor interactions. Specifically, an iCub humanoid robot interacts with a group of objects using a repertoire of manipulation behaviors. The objects are labeled using a set of adjectives and nouns. The effects in…

• SİNAN KALKAN

We study how a robot can link concepts represented by adjectives and nouns in language with its own sensorimotor interactions. Specifically, an iCub humanoid robot interacts with a group of objects using a repertoire of manipulation behaviors. The objects are labeled using a set of adjectives and nouns. The effects in…

• EROL ŞAHİN

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The introduction to this volume forms a complete, detailed consideration of the various issues surrounding the question of the relationship between history and prehistory and of both to conceptions of time. The chapter addresses the critical questions of the separation of history into different periods, the troubled r…

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Since the seminal publication of “Web as Corpus” [1], the potential of creating corpora from the web has been realized for good for the creation of both online and offline corpora: noisy vs. clean, balanced vs. convenient, annotated vs. raw, small vs. big are only some antonyms that can be used to describe the range o…

In this paper, we investigate how the interactions of a robot with its environment can be used to create concepts that are typically represented by verbs in language. Towards this end, we utilize the notion of affordances to argue that verbs typically refer to the generation of a specific type of effect rather than a…

• SİNAN KALKAN

In this paper, we investigate how the interactions of a robot with its environment can be used to create concepts that are typically represented by verbs in language. Towards this end, we utilize the notion of affordances to argue that verbs typically refer to the generation of a specific type of effect rather than a…

• EROL ŞAHİN