ABSTRACT
Recently, there have been efforts to apply biological principles and the methodology of building artificial systems to understand the origins and evolution of language (Steels, 1999; Cangelosi & Parisi, 2001). Rather than looking only at natural languages as they exist today, this research in ‘artificial language evolution' tries to evolve artificial languages with natural language like properties – and thus explores the space of possibilities the same way artificial life explores the space of possible life forms.
