Publications on language, learning and historical dynamics

Natalia Komarova

Komarova, N.L., Jameson, K.A. and Narens, L. (2006) Evolutionary models of color categorization based on discrimination. To appear in Journal of Math Psychology.

Komarova, N.L. (2006) Oscillations in population sizes - from ecology to history (a commentary). Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences , 1(1), Article 8.

Komarova, N.L. (2006) Population dynamics of human language: a complex system. Frontiers of engineering: reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2005 symposium, The National Academy Press, pp. 89-98.

Korotayev, A.V. and Komarova, N.L. (2005) Historical macrodynamics of China, in Korotayev, A.V., Malkov, A.S. and Khaltourina, D.A. The Laws of History. Mathematical Modeling of Historical Macroprocesses. Demography, Economy, Wars. Moscow: URSS (in Rusian).

Khaltourina, D.A., Korotayev, A.V. and Komarova, N.L. (2005) Demographic growth and civil wars in modern Sub-Saharan Africa: mathematical modeling, in Korotayev, A.V., Malkov, A.S. and Khaltourina, D.A. The Laws of History. Mathematical Modeling of Historical Macroprocesses. Demography, Economy, Wars. Moscow: URSS (in Rusian).

Nowak, M.A. and Komarova, N.L. (2005) The evolution of altruism: from game theory to human language, in C. Harper (ed.) Spiritual Information: 100 perspectives, Templeton Foundation Press.

Komarova, N.L. (2004) Replicator-mutator equation, universality property and population dynamics of learning. Jour. of Theor. Biol. 230(2), pp. 227-239.

Komarova, N.L. and Niyogi, P. (2004) Optimizing the mutual intelligibility of linguistic agents in a shared world. Jour. of Artificial Intelligence, 154(1-2), pp. 1-42.

Komarova, N.L. and Rivin, I. (2003) Harmonic mean, random polynomials and stochastic matrices. Advances in Appl. Math. 31(2), pp.501-526 (math.PR/0105236)

Komarova, N.L. & Nowak, M.A. (2003) Language dynamics in finite populations. Jour. of Theor. Biol. 221, pp. 445-457.

Komarova, N.L. and Nowak, M.A. (2003) Language, learning and evolution, in S. Kirby & M. Christiansen (eds.) Language Evolution: The States of the Art, pp. 317-337, Oxford University Press.

Nowak, M.A., Komarova, N.L. & Niyogi, P. (2002) Computational and evolutionary aspects of language, Nature, 417, pp. 611-617.

Komarova, N.L. and Nowak, M.A. (2001) Population dynamics of grammar acquisition, in A. Cangelosi & D. Parisi (eds.) Simulating the Evolution of Language, pp. 149-164, Springer Verlag, London.

Komarova, N.L. and Hauser, M. (2001) Building the tower of babble. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5(10), pp. 412-413.

Nowak, M.A., Komarova, N.L. (2001) Toward an evolutionary theory of language. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5(7), pp. 288-295.

Komarova, N.L., Nowak, M.A. (2001) Natural selection of the critical period for grammar acquisition. Proc. Royal Soc. B, 268 , No. 1472, pp. 1189-1196.

Komarova, N.L. and Nowak, M.A. (2001) Evolutionary dynamics of the lexical matrix. Bull. Math. Biol, 63(3), pp. 451-485.

Komarova, N.L., Niyogi, P. and Nowak, M.A. (2001) Evolutionary dynamics of grammar acquisition. Jour. Theor. Biol, 209(1), pp. 43-59.

Nowak, M.A., Komarova, N.L. and Niyogi, P. (2001) Evolution of universal grammar. Science, 291, pp. 114-118.


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