Research on the origin and evolution of language often takes the approach of simulating models of how individual human populations communicate with each other. The naming game, one of those models, represents the process by which agents aim to form a shared vocabulary through communications. We propose CLNG that adds the elements of concept and communicative vagueness to the naming game; by using CLNG to simulate language evolution, we analyze the impacts of vagueness in communication on language evolution. Our results suggest that vagueness generates synonyms in a language and reduces the amount of shared knowledge needed by an entire population. Since CLNG is a communication model that focuses on communicative vagueness, it is expected to be able to quantitatively analyze the level of vagueness in organizational communication to determine how much vagueness is sufficient for smooth communication.

The impacts of vagueness in communication on language evolution

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