Supplementary material from "Language acquisition with communication between learners"
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We consider a class of students learning a language from a teacher. The situation can be interpreted as a group of child learners receiving input from the linguistic environment. The teacher provides sample sentences. The students try to learn the grammar of the teacher. In addition to just listening to the teacher, the students can also communicate with each other. The students hold hypotheses about the grammar and change them if they receive counter evidence. The process stops when all students have converged to the correct grammar. We study how the time to convergence depends on the structure of the class room by introducing and evaluating various complexity measures. We find that structured communication between students, although potentially introducing confusion, can greatly reduce some of the complexity measures. Our theory can also be interpreted as applying to the scientific process, where nature is the teacher and the scientists are the students.
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Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus; Tkadlec, Josef; Chatterjee, Krishnendu; Nowak, Martin A. (2018). Supplementary material from "Language acquisition with communication between learners". The Royal Society. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4028971.v1