Vowel Shift
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; Vowel Shift Model ; designed by Jessica Hughes ; as a final Masters project for GMU MAIS-CSS, Fall 2013 ; CODE TABLE OF CONTENTS: ;1. Initializing Variables and Breeds ;2. Setup ;3. Go Procedures ;4. Utilities ;5. Run Tests ;6. Follow One Agent ;===================================== ;1. INITIALIZING VARIABLES AND BREEDS ;===================================== globals [num-tick ; each simulation run has one global clock and set of global averages overall and for each breed avg-vowel1 avg-vowel2 avg-green-vowel1 avg-green-vowel2 avg-red-vowel1 avg-red-vowel2 starting-avg-green-vowel1 starting-avg-green-vowel2 starting-avg-red-vowel1 starting-avg-red-vowel2 change-avg-green-vowel1 change-avg-green-vowel2 change-avg-red-vowel1 change-avg-red-vowel2 ] turtles-own [ ; each turtle has its own vowel (changes during run), partner (also changes), memories of vowels heard, ; break-point between the vowels, and speed to move around at vowel1 ; This is not the prototype, this is the next vowel sound to be spoken based on memory vowel2 avg-own-vowel1 ; This is the prototype vowel for a given turtle avg-own-vowel2 partner vowel1-memory vowel2-memory vowel-break-point move-speed observation explanation1 explanation2 explanation3 ] breed [reds redd] ; establish two breeds: reds and greens breed [greens greenn] ;========= ;2. SETUP ;========= to setup clear-all ask n-of num-turtles patches [sprout 1] ; decide how many turtles to sprout based on input slider ask turtles [ identify-breed ; set turtles on the left as reds, and on the right as greens first-memory ; set their starting memories of Vowel 1 based on their breed (vowel 2 is the same for both breeds) set move-speed random 2 + 1 ; each turtle is given a speed from "birth" ] do-utils ; set initial averages for plots starting-utils ; record initial averages for determining change do-plots ; show averages on plots ask turtles [shade-color] reset-ticks ; set ticks back to 0 end to identify-breed ; set turtles on the left as reds, and on the right as greens. color accordingly. ifelse xcor > 0 [set breed greens set color green] [set breed reds set color red] end to first-memory ; VOWEL1 ifelse breed = greens [set vowel1 round random-normal 2 1] ; set greens' vowel1 a random integer between ~0 and 4 [set vowel1 round random-normal 7 1] ; set reds' vowel1 a random integer between ~5 and 9 set vowel1-memory list [vowel1] of self [vowel1] of self ; fill each turtle's memory with 10x this vowel repeat 8 [set vowel1-memory fput vowel1 vowel1-memory] ; VOWEL2 set vowel2 round random-normal 9 1 ; set all turtles' vowel2 a random integer between ~8 and 12 set vowel2-memory list [vowel2] of self [vowel2] of self ; fill each turtle's memory with 10x this vowel repeat 8 [set vowel2-memory fput vowel2 vowel2-memory] end ;================= ;3. GO PROCEDURES ;================= to step ifelse homing-beacon? = true [move-turtles-beacon] [move-turtles] ; turtle moves according to own speed and beaconing ask turtles [ set partner one-of other turtles in-radius conv-radius listen-neighbor pick-vowel-example shade-color ] do-utils second-utils do-plots set num-tick num-tick + 1 end to go ifelse standard-deviation [vowel1] of turtles > 0.7 ; keep going until the two communities' vowel 1's have merged. [step] [stop] end to fast-fwd repeat 10 [step] end to listen-neighbor if (partner != nobody ) [ ; if there is someone else within conversation-radius, ; ifelse random 2 = 1 ifelse random-normal [vowel1] of partner 0.5 > [vowel-break-point] of self ; listen to partner's instantiation of vowel1 [set vowel2-memory fput round [vowel1] of partner vowel2-memory ; if it's higher than your vowel-break-point set vowel2-memory but-last vowel2-memory] ; remember it as an instance of vowel2 and trim earliest memory [set vowel1-memory fput round [vowel1] of partner vowel1-memory ; if it's not higher than your vowel-break-point, set vowel1-memory but-last vowel1-memory] ; remember it as an instance of vowel1 (as intended) and trim earliest memory ; [ifelse random-normal [vowel2] of partner 0.5 < [vowel-break-point] of self ; This code, plus the line commented out above, ; [set vowel1-memory fput round [vowel2] of partner vowel1-memory ; would allow turtles to listen to each others' ; set vowel1-memory but-last vowel1-memory] ; vowel 2's as well. However, the desired behavior ; [set vowel2-memory fput round [vowel2] of partner vowel2-memory ; does not emerge under those conditions (see paper) ; set vowel2-memory but-last vowel2-memory] ; ] ] end to pick-vowel-example set vowel1 one-of vowel1-memory ; pick a new example vowel1 based on average memory set vowel2 one-of vowel2-memory ; pick a new example vowel2 based on average memory end ;============= ;4. UTILITIES ;============= to shade-color ; Color by vowel1: NEED TO FIX THIS LATER ifelse breed = greens [set color scale-color [color] of self avg-own-vowel1 5 0] [set color scale-color [color] of self avg-own-vowel1 10 0] end to move-turtles ; each turtle moves in a random direction at its own speed ask turtles [right random 360 forward [move-speed] of self] end to move-turtles-beacon ; if turtles far too far outside their home area, they should turn back toward home and move that way ask greens [if xcor >= -4 [ right random 360 forward [move-speed] of self] if xcor < -4 [facexy 16 8 forward [move-speed] of self] ] ask reds [if xcor <= 4 [ right random 360 forward [move-speed] of self] if xcor > 4 [facexy 0 8 forward [move-speed] of self] ] end to do-utils ask turtles [set avg-own-vowel1 mean vowel1-memory set avg-own-vowel2 mean vowel2-memory set vowel-break-point (avg-own-vowel1 + avg-own-vowel2) / 2 ] ; recalculate the break point between the two vowels] set avg-vowel1 mean [avg-own-vowel1] of turtles set avg-vowel2 mean [avg-own-vowel2] of turtles set avg-green-vowel1 mean [avg-own-vowel1] of greens set avg-green-vowel2 mean [avg-own-vowel2] of greens set avg-red-vowel1 mean [avg-own-vowel1] of reds set avg-red-vowel2 mean [avg-own-vowel2] of reds ; set std-vowel1 standard-deviation [vowel1] of turtles end to starting-utils ; after initial util run, this procedure records the starting values for analysis set starting-avg-green-vowel1 avg-green-vowel1 set starting-avg-green-vowel2 avg-green-vowel2 set starting-avg-red-vowel1 avg-red-vowel1 set starting-avg-red-vowel2 avg-red-vowel2 end to second-utils ; this are in a separate procedure because they require starting-utils (which only runs once) set change-avg-green-vowel1 (avg-green-vowel1 - starting-avg-green-vowel1) ; and do-utils (which runs every step) set change-avg-green-vowel2 (avg-green-vowel2 - starting-avg-green-vowel2) set change-avg-red-vowel1 (avg-red-vowel1 - starting-avg-red-vowel1) set change-avg-red-vowel2 (avg-red-vowel2 - starting-avg-red-vowel2) end to do-plots set-current-plot "Vowel1 distro" ; histogram set-current-plot-pen "value" histogram [vowel1] of turtles set-current-plot "Vowel2 distro" ; histogram set-current-plot-pen "value" histogram [vowel2] of turtles set-current-plot "vowels-over-time" ; plot set-current-plot-pen "green-vowel1" plot avg-green-vowel1 set-current-plot-pen "green-vowel2" plot avg-green-vowel2 set-current-plot-pen "red-vowel1" plot avg-red-vowel1 set-current-plot-pen "red-vowel2" plot avg-red-vowel2 end ;============= ;5. RUN TESTS ;============= to runTests let numReps 10 ; <-- number of repetitions of test per variable combination let maxSteps 3000 ; <-- number of steps to run per test let conv-radiusList (list 1 2 3) ; <-- list conv-radius values to test here let num-turtlesList (list 30 50 70 90) ; <-- list num-turtles values to test here set homing-beacon? false ; <-- will test be with homing beacon? let a 0 let b 0 let i 0 let rs 1 set rs 1 let file user-new-file if file-exists? file [print "file exists" stop ] file-open file file-print "Vowel Shift: Parameter Sweep" file-type "Homing beacon? " file-print homing-beacon? file-type "conv-radius " file-print conv-radiusList file-type "num-turtles " file-print num-turtlesList file-print "trial,tick,conv-radius,num-turtles,start-green1,change-green1,start-green2,change-green2,start-red1,change-red1,start-red2,change-red2" ;data to print as csv: foreach conv-radiusList[ set a ? set conv-radius a foreach num-turtlesList[ set b ? set num-turtles b set i 0 set rs 1 while [i < numReps] [ random-seed rs setup while [standard-deviation [vowel1] of turtles > 0.7] [step] set i (i + 1) set rs (rs + 1) file-type i file-type "," file-type num-tick file-type "," file-type a file-type "," file-type b file-type "," file-type avg-green-vowel1 file-type "," file-type change-avg-green-vowel1 file-type "," file-type avg-green-vowel2 file-type "," file-type change-avg-green-vowel2 file-type "," file-type avg-red-vowel1 file-type "," file-type change-avg-red-vowel1 file-type "," file-type avg-red-vowel2 file-type "," file-print change-avg-red-vowel2 ] ] ] file-print " " file-close end ;=================== ;6. FOLLOW ONE AGENT ;=================== to followAgent let maxSteps 1000 ; <-- number of steps to run per test (will stop early if greens' and reds' vowel1s have merged) ; select settings for follow-agent test set conv-radius 2 set num-turtles 70 set homing-beacon? true ; set up model run according to those settings setup ; choose a red border agent to follow let pick-agent one-of reds with [xcor > -5] set pick-agent pick-agent let file user-new-file if file-exists? file [print "file exists" stop ] file-open file file-print "Vowel Shift: Conversations of an Agent" file-type "Homing beacon? " file-print homing-beacon? file-type "conv-radius " file-print conv-radius file-type "num-turtles " file-print num-turtles file-type "agent number " file-print pick-agent ;; file-type "starting sentiment " file-print [starting-sentiment] of pick-agent ;column headers: ;; file-print "step,observation,first,therefore,and-then,conflict-narrative,alt-narr,gap,sentiment" ;data to print as csv: while [standard-deviation [vowel1] of turtles > 0.7] [ step file-type num-tick file-type ", " file-type [observation] of pick-agent file-type "," file-type [explanation1] of pick-agent file-type "," file-type [explanation2] of pick-agent file-type "," file-type [explanation3] of pick-agent file-type "," file-type [vowel1] of pick-agent file-type "," file-type [vowel2] of pick-agent file-type "," file-type [avg-own-vowel1] of pick-agent file-type "," file-type [avg-own-vowel2] of pick-agent file-print "," if (num-tick > maxSteps) [file-close stop] ] file-close end
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