The VerbaTerra Project: A vSION-Based Simulation Framework for Adaptive Cognition and Language Evolution

Harshit Gupta

The VerbaTerra Project: A vSION-Based Simulation Framework for Adaptive Cognition and Language Evolution

Author(s)	Harshit Gupta
Country	India
Abstract	Language is more than a symbolic code—it is a computational reflection of cultural structure. Yet the majority of quantitative linguistic models isolate grammatical form from the socio-cultural ecologies that generate it. This paper introduces a hybrid simulation methodology that integrates cultural heuristics, linguistic metrics, and cognitive indicators into a single analytic architecture: the Integrated Cultural–Linguistic Heuristic Framework (ICLHF). Building on Daniel L. Everett’s proposition that “culture is the chief determinant of language structure,” the method constructs a dual dataset comprising 200 theoretically parameterised simulated societies and 200 empirically synthesised cultural-linguistic cases derived from South Asian historical literature. Each observation encodes four cultural predictors—ritual formality, trade intensity, symbolic representation, and social hierarchy—and four linguistic outcomes—syntactic recursion, lexical diversity, semantic flexibility, and borrowing rate—scaled on a uniform 1–10 metric. Using mixed statistical and computational techniques (correlation matrices, multivariate regression, mediation modelling, and unsupervised clustering), the study demonstrates robust and interpretable relationships between cultural variables and linguistic complexity. Simulation results reproduce empirical patterns with 0.89 correlation, validating the theoretical coherence of Everettian causation within a quantitative frame. Beyond its empirical yield, the methodology establishes a replicable protocol for hybrid simulation in the humanities: parameterise qualitative theory → generate synthetic data → validate against curated proxies → interpret within ethnographic logic. The framework enables linguistic anthropology, cognitive science, and computational modelling to converge around a shared heuristic grammar of cultural evolution.
Keywords	cultural simulation, Everettian linguistics, ICLHF, mixed methods, neuro-linguistic integration, South Asia, cultural resilience
Field	Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In	Volume 6, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On	2025-11-08

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