by Steven T. Piantadosi and Evelina Fedorenko
Reference:
Infinitely productive language can arise from chance under communicative pressure (Steven T. Piantadosi and Evelina Fedorenko), In Journal of Language Evolution, volume 2, 2016.
Bibtex Entry:
@article{piantadosi2015infinitely,
title={Infinitely productive language can arise from chance under communicative pressure},
author={Steven T. Piantadosi and Evelina Fedorenko},
journal={Journal of Language Evolution},
year={2016},
volume={2},
issues={2},
pages={141--147},
url={http://colala.berkeley.edu/papers/piantadosi2016infinitely.pdf},
tags={modeling, language, informationtheory},
eli5={Having brains that are complex won't tend to give you languages that generate a lot of sentences, but needing to communicate many meanings will.}
}