Dear Alife Mutants, here is a (very personal) selection of talks from the Evolang conference in Leipzig. They all have in common that they provide a nice conceptional /computational framework for the evolution of language that may be a startingpoint for one of the projects at the next rule110 winter workshop... { language change and social networks } (jinyun ke) modell of how various communication networks (small world, scale free ...) influence the evolution of language http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/evolang/ABSTRACTS/TALKS/jinyunke.txt { a unified computer model for internal and external constraints in language evolution } (Christophe Coupé) dynamic complex systems approach to language evolution http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/evolang/ABSTRACTS/TALKS/coupe.txt { language emergence: a self-organized model using indirect meaning transference } (Tao Gong, Jinyun Ke, James W. Minett, William Wang) promising modell using classifier systems (invented by John Holland) http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/evolang/ABSTRACTS/TALKS/taogong-jinyunke.txt { emergent compositionality in language through negotiation } (Nicolas Neubauer) simulates how compositionality in language can be induced by structure in the environment http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/evolang/ABSTRACTS/TALKS/neubauer.pdf { language emerges only in kin-related groups or if it used to talk to oneself } ( Marco Mirolli, Domenico Parisi ) interesting approach simulated in a small and beautiful mushroom world http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/evolang/ABSTRACTS/TALKS/mirolli-parisi.txt Unfortunately the papers are not available yet, but the abstracts should give you a first impression. Cheers, Martin --------------------------------------------------------------------------- list archives : //www.freelists.org/archives/rule110 change options : http://www.rule110.org/contact.html or sign off by mailing to list-request@xxxxxxxxxxx - subject: 'unsubscribe'