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1 Mathematical and computational models of language evolution Gerhard Jäger Institute of Linguistics, Tübingen University DGfS Summer School August 19, 2013 Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

2 EGT and pragmatics Horn strategies: prototypical meanings tend to go with simple expressions and less prototypical meanings with complex expressions. (1) a. John went to church/jail. (prototypical interpretation) b. John went to the church/jail. (literal interpretation) (2) a. I am going to marry you. (no indirect speech act) b. I will marry you. (indirect speech act) (3) a. I need a new driller/cooker. b. I need a new drill/cook. Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

3 Horn strategies simple game: players: speaker and hearer two forms: f 0 (short) and f 1 (long) two meanings: m 0 (frequent) and m 1 (rare) speaker strategies: mappings from meanings to forms hearer strategies: mappings from forms to meanings Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

4 Speaker strategies S 1 : m 0 f 0, m 1 f 1 : Horn strategy S 2 : m 0 f 1, m 1 f 0 : anti-horn strategy S 3 : m 0 f 0, m 1 f 0 : Smolensky strategy S 4 : m 0 f 1, m 1 f 1 : anti-smolensky strategy Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

5 Hearer strategies H 1 : f 0 m 0, f 1 m 1 : Horn strategy' H 2 : f 0 m 1, f 1 m 0 : anti-horn strategy H 3 : f 0 m 0, f 1 m 0 : Smolensky strategy H 4 : f 0 m 1, f 1 m 1 : anti-smolensky strategy Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

6 Utility of Horn games whether communication works depends both on speaker strategy S and hearer strategy H two factors for functionality of communication communicative success (hearer economy) { 1 i H(S(m)) = m δ m (S, H) = 0 else least eort (speaker economy) cost(f)... measure of complexity of expression Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

7 Utility of Horn games u s/h (S, H) = m p m (δ m (S, H) cost(s(m))) p... probability distribution over meanings Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

8 Utility of Horn game Let's make up some numbers: p(m 0 ) =.75 p(m 1 ) =.25 cost(f 0 ) =.1 cost(f 1 ) =.2 Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

9 Utility of Horn game H 1 H 2 H 3 H 4 S S S S Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

10 Utility of Horn game H 1 H 2 H 3 H 4 S S S S Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

11 The problem of equilibrium selection both Horn and anti-horn are evolutionarily stable EGT explains the aversion of natural languages against synonymy and ambiguity preference for Horn not directly explainable in standard EGT Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

12 The problem of equilibrium selection rationalistic considerations favor Horn over anti-horn: Horn strategy is Pareto ecient (nobody can do better in absolute terms) Horn strategy risk dominates anti-horn (if you know the population is in an equilibrium but you do not know in which one, going for Horn is less risky than anti-horn) replicator dynamics favors Horn over anti-horn: complete random state evolves to Horn/Horn basin of attraction of Horn is about 20 times as large as basin of attraction of anti-horn (numerical approximationdoes anybody know how to do this analytically?) Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

13 Dynamics starting from random state S1 S2 S3 S H1 H2 H3 H4 Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

14 The evolution of dierential case marking Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

15 Ways of argument identication transitivity may lead to ambiguity die Frau, die Maria kennt the woman that Maria knows the woman that knows Maria three ways out 1 word order 2 agreement 3 case Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

16 die Frau, die er kennt die Frau, die ihn kennt the woman that he knows the woman that knows him Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

17 Suppose one argument is a pronoun and one is a noun (or a phrase) {I, BOOK, KNOW} both conversants have an interest in successful communication case marking (accusative or ergative) is usually more costly than zero-marking (nominative) speaker wants to avoid costs Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

18 speaker strategies always case mark the object (accusative) always case mark the agent (ergative) case mark the object if it is a pronoun. hearer strategies ergative is agent and accusative object pronoun is agent pronoun is object pronoun is agent unless it is accusative. Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

19 Statistical patterns of language use four possible clause types O/p O/n A/p he knows it he knows the book A/n the man knows it the man knows the book statistical distribution (from a corpus of spoken English) O/p O/n A/p pp = 198 pn = 716 A/n np = 16 nn = 75 pn np Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

20 functionality of speaker strategies and hearer strategies depends on various factors: How often will the hearer get the message right? How many case markers does the speaker need per clause on average? Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

21 speaker strategies that will be considered agent is pronoun agent is noun object is pronoun object is noun e(rgative) e(rgative) a(ccusative) a(ccusative) e e a z(ero) e e z a e e z z e z a a z e z z z z a a z z a z z z z a z z z z Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

22 hearer strategies: strict rule: ergative means agent, and accusative means object elsewhere rules: 1 SO: The rst phrase is always the agent. 2 pa: Pronouns are agents, and nouns are objects. 3 po: Pronouns are objects, and nouns are agents. 4 OS: The rst phrase is always the object. Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

23 The game of case strategy space and utility function are known probability of meaning types can be estimated from corpus study hard to estimate how the complexity of a case morpheme compares to its benet for disambiguation from the speaker perspective parameterized utility function u(s, H) = m p m (δ m (S, H) k cost(s(m))) Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

24 Utility of case marking let us assume k =.1 Speaker Hearer strategies strategies SO pa po OS eezz zzaa ezaz zeza zeaz ezzz zezz zzaz zzza zzzz Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

25 Utility of case marking let us assume k =.1 Speaker Hearer strategies strategies SO pa po OS eezz zzaa ezaz zeza zeaz ezzz zezz zzaz zzza zzzz Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

26 Utility of case marking only one evolutionarily stable state: zeaz/pa (split ergative) very common among Australian aborigines languages Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

27 Non-strict Nash equilibria Why are non-strict Nash Equilibria unstable? Dynamics without mutation Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

28 Non-strict Nash equilibria Why are non-strict Nash Equilibria unstable? Dynamics with mutation Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

29 Utility of case marking If speakers get lazier... k = 0.45 Speaker Hearer strategies strategies SO pa po OS eezz zzaa ezaz zeza zeaz ezzz zezz zzaz zzza zzzz Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

30 Utility of case marking If speakers get lazier... k = 0.45 Speaker Hearer strategies strategies SO pa po OS eezz zzaa ezaz zeza zeaz ezzz zezz zzaz zzza zzzz Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

31 Utility of case marking... and lazier... k = 0.53 Speaker Hearer strategies strategies SO pa po OS eezz zzaa ezaz zeza zeaz ezzz zezz zzaz zzza zzzz Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

32 Utility of case marking... and lazier... k = 0.53 Speaker Hearer strategies strategies SO pa po OS eezz zzaa ezaz zeza zeaz ezzz zezz zzaz zzza zzzz Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

33 Utility of case marking... and lazier... k = 0.7 Speaker Hearer strategies strategies SO pa po OS eezz zzaa ezaz zeza zeaz ezzz zezz zzaz zzza zzzz Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

34 Utility of case marking... and lazier... k = 0.7 Speaker Hearer strategies strategies SO pa po OS eezz zzaa ezaz zeza zeaz ezzz zezz zzaz zzza zzzz Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

35 Utility of case marking... k = 1 Speaker Hearer strategies strategies SO pa po OS eezz zzaa ezaz zeza zeaz ezzz zezz zzaz zzza zzzz Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

36 Utility of case marking... k = 1 Speaker Hearer strategies strategies SO pa po OS eezz zzaa ezaz zeza zeaz ezzz zezz zzaz zzza zzzz Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

37 Taking stock zeaz/pa split ergative zzaz/pa dierential object marking zezz/pa dierential subject marking ezzz/po inverse DOM zzza/po inverse DSM zzzz/pa no case marking zzza/po zzzz/pa Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

38 Taking stock zeaz/pa split ergative Australian languages zzaz/pa dierential object marking zezz/pa dierential subject marking ezzz/po inverse DOM zzza/po inverse DSM zzzz/pa no case marking zzza/po zzzz/pa Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

39 Taking stock zeaz/pa split ergative Australian languages zzaz/pa dierential object marking English, Dutch,... zezz/pa dierential subject marking ezzz/po inverse DOM zzza/po inverse DSM zzzz/pa no case marking zzza/po zzzz/pa Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

40 Taking stock zeaz/pa split ergative Australian languages zzaz/pa dierential object marking English, Dutch,... zezz/pa dierential subject marking several caucasian languages zzzz/pa no case marking ezzz/po inverse DOM zzza/po inverse DSM zzza/po zzzz/pa Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

41 Taking stock zeaz/pa split ergative Australian languages zzaz/pa dierential object marking English, Dutch,... zezz/pa dierential subject marking several caucasian languages zzzz/pa no case marking Chinese, Thai ezzz/po inverse DOM zzza/po inverse DSM zzza/po zzzz/pa Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

42 Taking stock zeaz/pa split ergative Australian languages zzaz/pa dierential object marking English, Dutch,... zezz/pa dierential subject marking several caucasian languages zzzz/pa no case marking Chinese, Thai ezzz/po inverse DOM zzza/po inverse DSM Nganasan zzza/po zzzz/pa Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

43 Taking stock only very few languages are not evolutionary stable in this sense zzaa: Hungarian, ezza: Parachi, Yazguljami (Iranian languages), eeaa: Wangkumara curious asymmetry: if there are two competing stable states, one is common and the other one rare similar pattern as with Horn vs. anti-horn Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

44 Alle equilibria are stable, but some equilibria are more stable than others. Stochastic EGT Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

45 Random mutation and stability idealizations of standard Evolutionary Game Theory populations are (practically) innite mutations rate is constant and low better model (Young 1993; Kandori, Mailath and Rob 1993) nite population mutation is noisy Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

46 Consequences of nite population model every mutation barrier will occasionally be taken no absolute stability if multiple Strict Nash Equilibria coexist, system will oscillate between them some equilibria are more stable than others system will spend most of the time in most robustly stable state stochastically stable states Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

47 A particular model discrete time/nite population version of replicator dynamics mutations occur rarely (most generations have no mutants at all) if mutation occurs, each individual in this generation has same probability to be a mutant mutation frequency and mutation rate equal for both populations each strategy is equally likely for a mutant (within its population) Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

48 The formulas x i t y i t = x i (ũ i ũ A ) + j = y i (ũ i ũ B ) + j Z ji Z ij n Z ji Z ij n Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

49 The formulas x i t y i t = x i (ũ i ũ A ) + j = y i (ũ i ũ B ) + j Z ji Z ij n Z ji Z ij n x i : frequency of speaker strategy i Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

50 The formulas x i t y i t = x i (ũ i ũ A ) + j = y i (ũ i ũ B ) + j Z ji Z ij n Z ji Z ij n x i : frequency of speaker strategy i y i : frequency of hearer strategy i Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

51 The formulas x i t y i t = x i (ũ i ũ A ) + j = y i (ũ i ũ B ) + j Z ji Z ij n Z ji Z ij n x i : frequency of speaker strategy i y i : frequency of hearer strategy i ũ i : expected utility of strategy i Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

52 The formulas x i t y i t = x i (ũ i ũ A ) + j = y i (ũ i ũ B ) + j Z ji Z ij n Z ji Z ij n x i : frequency of speaker strategy i y i : frequency of hearer strategy i ũ i : expected utility of strategy i ũ R : average utility of entire R-population Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

53 The formulas x i t y i t = x i (ũ i ũ A ) + j = y i (ũ i ũ B ) + j Z ji Z ij n Z ji Z ij n x i : frequency of speaker strategy i y i : frequency of hearer strategy i ũ i : expected utility of strategy i ũ R : average utility of entire R-population Z ij : random variable; distributed according to the binomial distribution b(p ij, x i n ) p ij : probability that an i-individual mutates to strategy j Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

54 The formulas x i t y i t = x i (ũ i ũ A ) + j = y i (ũ i ũ B ) + j Z ji Z ij n Z ji Z ij n x i : frequency of speaker strategy i y i : frequency of hearer strategy i ũ i : expected utility of strategy i ũ R : average utility of entire R-population Z ij : random variable; distributed according to the binomial distribution b(p ij, x i n ) p ij : probability that an i-individual mutates to strategy j n: population size Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

55 A simulation Horn anti-horn Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

56 Stochastic stability punctuated equilibria long periods of dynamic stability alternate with short transition periods in the long run, more time in Horn state (67% vs. 26% in anti-horn) simulation suggests that Horn is stable while anti-horn is not can this be proved? Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

57 Analytic considerations Simple recipes for nding stochastically stable state in 2 2 games not easily extrapolated to larger games basic idea: calculate the height of the invasion barrier of each ESS the ESSs with maximal invasion barrier is stochastically stable Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

58 Analytic considerations invasion barrier = amount of mutations necessary to push the system into the basin of attraction of another ESS Horn anti-horn: 50% anti-horn Horn: 47.5% Hence: Horn strategy is the only stochastically stable state Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

59 Stochastic evolution of case marking k = 0.45 competition between zzaz/pa and ezzz/po evolution of speaker population: zzaz ezzz Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

60 Stochastic evolution of case marking k = 0.45 competition between zzaz/pa and ezzz/po evolution of hearer population: AO OA Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

61 Analysis invasion barriers: dierential object marking: 45.2% inverse dierential subject marking: 2.06% Dierential object marking is stochastically stable; inverse dierential subject marking is not. likewise, dierential subject marking is stochastically stable while inverse dierential object marking is not. Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

62 Stochastically stable states zeaz/pa split ergative Australian languages zzaz/pa dierential object marking English, Dutch,... zezz/pa dierential subject marking several caucasian languages zzzz/pa no case marking Chinese, Thai Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

63 Conclusion out of 4 16 = 64 possible case marking patterns only four are stochastically stable vast majority of all languages that t into this categorization are stochastically stable precise numbers are hard to come by though linguistic universals can be result of evolutionary pressure in the sense of cultural evolution Gerhard Jäger (UTübingen) Language Evolution / 46

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