Modeling the cognitive and social mechanisms behind constructionalization and constructional change
using Fluid Construction Grammar
 
Luc Steels
ICREA - Institut de Biologia Evolutiva Barcelona
AI Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
 
Constructionalization is the formation of a new construction and constructional change takes place when
an existing construction is adapted to apply in other contexts or combinations. I will introduce a general
architecture and examples of 'grammar-building operations' that could explain in mechanistic terms why we see these
historical processes. I will also discuss what kind of collective dynamics can explain how constructional innovations
spread in the population. Examples will be drawn from currently ongoing agent-based modelling experiments for the
emergence of phrase structure grammar.
 
 
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