This repo contains rough and ready reproductions of three models of the evolution of adjectival thresholds. The papers are:
Franke, Michael. ‘Scales, Salience, and Referential Safety: The Benefit of Communicating the Extreme’. In The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference. Kyoto, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814401500_0016.
Qing, Ciyang, and Michael Franke. ‘Gradable Adjectives, Vagueness, and Optimal Language Use: A Speaker-Oriented Model’. In Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 24:23–41. New York, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/salt.v24i0.2412.
Lassiter, Daniel, and Noah D. Goodman. ‘Context, Scale Structure, and Statistics in the Interpretation of Positive-Form Adjectives’. In Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 23:587–610. Santa Cruz, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/salt.v23i0.2658.