This naturally produces a kind of linguistic structure, but the languages have to be simple so that they’re easy to learn.
Futrell describes a line of researchthat correlates intelligence and language based on computer simulations. The basic finding, he says, is that if you simulate agents communicating with each other using signals, they have to coordinate with each other to come up with a set of signals that enable them to communicate well. This naturally produces a kind of linguistic structure, but the languages have to be simple so that they’re easy to learn.