document: Natural language from artificial life This article aims to show that linguistics , in particular the study of the lexico-syntactic aspects of language , provides fertile ground for artificial life modeling . A survey of the models that have been developed over the last decade and a half is presented to demonstrate that ALife techniques have a lot to offer an explanatory theory of language . It is argued that this is because much of the structure of language is determined by the interaction of three complex adaptive systems : learning , culture , and biological evolution . Computational simulation , informed by theoretical linguistics , is an appropriate response to the challenge of explaining real linguistic data in terms of the processes that underpin human language
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