FIRSTSPEAKER: Create founding agent

In MoLE: Modeling Language Evolution

Description

Creates first agent of a lineage which only consists of a conventional symbolic lexicon (and the infrastructure to count word uses).

Usage

FIRSTSPEAKER()

Details

Start with 4 for log operations later on. Only with minimally 4 exceptions, Tolerance threshold is minority indeed

Value

age	age of agent at birth=0
generation	generation of agent
fertile	logical for fertility of agent (1 until procreated)
semupdate	logical that says that whether agent has updated its semantics already (0 at birth; cf. SEMUPDATE)
verbs	verbal lexicon
nouns	nominal lexicon
usageHistory	list with actual usages of verbs, nouns, and verb and nominal markers
commonGround	vector with lexemes recently discussed
collostructions	list with collostruction frequencies for subject-verb, object-verb, index-referent, and noun marker-noun combinations
topic	topic
wordOrder	data frame with word order frequencies
topicPosition	data frame with topic position frequencies

Author(s)

Sander Lestrade

References

Charles Yang (2016), The price of linguistic productivity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

See Also

FOUND

Examples

adam=FIRSTSPEAKER()
str(adam)

MoLE documentation built on May 2, 2019, 3:02 p.m.