Title
How to play the Syntax Game
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- Talk Time: 11:45
- Date: Wednesday 22 July
- Session: Communication and Language RCH/250 Wednesday 22 July 11:20
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Abstract
This paper introduces the Syntax Game, a language game for exploring the origins of syntactic structure, specifically phrase structure. We define the game and propose a particular strategy for playing it. We show that this strategy leads to the emergence of a phrase structure grammar through the collective invention, adoption, and alignment of culturally established conventions.
