Tao Gong

List of John Benjamins publications in which Tao Gong is involved.

Articles

Gong, Tao 2011 Simulating the coevolution of compositionality and word order regularity Interaction Studies 12:1, pp. 63–106 | Article

This paper proposes a coevolutionary scenario on the origins of compositionality and word order regularity in human language, and illustrates it using a multi-agent, behavioral model. The model traces a ‘bottom-up’ process of syntactic development; artificial agents, by iterating local orders… read more

Gong, Tao, James W. Minett and William S-Y. Wang 2009 A simulation study on word order bias Interaction Studies 10:1, pp. 51–75 | Article

The majority of the extant languages have one of three dominant basic word orders: SVO, SOV or VSO. Various hypotheses have been proposed to explain this word order bias, including the existence of a universal grammar, the learnability imposed by cognitive constraints, the descent of modern… read more