Simulating the Usage Acquisition of Two-Word Sentences with a First- or Second-Person Subject and Verb

摘要

This article examines a minimalist mechanism in a simple language game to acquire the use of two-word sentences consisting of a first- or second-person pronoun as the subject and a verb as the predicate. In an experiment, a learner agent with minimalist architecture learned to select the subject and verb while interacting with a caretaker agent. The assumptions and implications of the experiment are discussed.