A Framework for Representing Language Acquisition in a Population Setting (P18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to model language acquisition and social structure are ineffective because nobody can travel back in time or fit entire natural environments into a lab. |
| Approach: | They propose a new analytic framework which combines previous network models' ability to capture realistic social structure with more elegant computational properties. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework is able to capture real social structure and integrate with existing models while being modular and extensible. |
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