Multi-agent models have been a close companion of evolutionary linguistics since its resurgence in the 90s. (There’s too much fuzzy terminology in our field but for me this term subsumes the study of the evolution of Language with a capital L as well as language evolution, i.e. evolutionary approaches to language change.) I’d probably go read more...
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