Dr. Tao Gong

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsSoftware Engineering and Programming Languages,General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages,Developmental and Educational Psychology
KeywordsComputational simulation, Language evolution, Linguistics universals, Multi-agent system

Current contact address

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Bernard ComrieAbteilung Linguistik, Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2008

Programme(s)

2007Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2011Tao Gong: Simulating the coevolution of compositionality and word order regularity. In: Interaction Studies, 2011, 63-106
2010Tao Gong, James W. Minett, and William S-Y. Wang: A simulation study exploring the role of cultural transmission in language evolution. In: Connection Science, 2010, 69-85
2010James W. Minett and Tao Gong: Exploring linguistic ambiguity from a simulation perspective. In: Wuyun Pan and Zhongwei Shen, Festschrift for the 75th Birthday of William S-Y. Wang. Shanghai Education Press, 2010. 112-131
2010Tao Gong: Exploring the roles of horizontal, vertical, and oblique transmissions in language evolution. In: Adaptive Behavior, 2010, 356-376
2010Andrea Baronchelli, Tao Gong, Andrea Puglisi, and Vittorio Loreto: Modeling the emergence of universality in color naming patterns. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010, 2403-2407
2010Tao Gong, Ruoxiao Yang, Caicai Zhang, and Umberto Ansaldo: Review of the summer institute in cognitive sciences 2010: The origins of language. In: Biolinguistics, 2010, 385-402
2010Gang Peng, Hongying Zheng, Tao Gong, Ruoxiao Yang, Jiangping Kong, and William S-Y. Wang: The influence of language experience on categorical perception of pitch contours. In: Journal of Phonetics, 2010, 616-624
2009Tao Gong, James W. Minett, and William S-Y. Wang: A simulation study on word order bias. Interaction Studies. In: Interaction Studies, 2009, 51-76
2009Tao Gong: Computational simulation in evolutionary linguistics: A study on language emergence. Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, 2009
2008Tao Gong, Andrea Puglisi, Vittorio Loreto, and William S-Y. Wang: Conventionalization of linguistic knowledge under simple communicative constraints. In: Biological Theory: Integrating Development, Evolution, and Cognition, 2008, 154-163
2008Tao Gong, James W. Minett, and William S-Y. Wang: Exploring social structure effect on language evolution based on a computational model. In: Connection Science, 2008, 135-153
2008Jinyun Ke, Tao Gong, and William S-Y. Wang: Language change and social networks. In: Communications in Computational Physics, 2008, 935-949