The GRCDI is pleased to welcome back Professor Inbal Arnon for a discussion of her 2025 paper “What enables human language? A biocultural framework”, published in Science. Prof. Arnon will provide a short introduction to the paper at the beginning of the session, but the intention is for the focus to remain primarily on a ...
Join the GRCDI team for an exclusive tour of St Andrews University's historic James Gregory Telescope and a discussion of the current research being performed to gain an understanding of intelligence beyond our planet.
Abstract All known languages are made up of statistically coherent sequences - words - whose frequency distribution follows a power law known as a Zipfian distribution. Despite the ubiquity of these features across languages their origins are poorly understood. In this talk, I will argue that they arise because they facilitate learning and therefore emerge ...