Experimental Semiotics

A new approach for studying the emergence and the evolution of human communication

Special Issue of Interaction Studies 11:1 (2010)

Editors

Bruno Galantucci | Yeshiva University

Simon Garrod | University of Glasgow

[Interaction Studies, 11:1] 2010. v, 159 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 4 March 2010

https://doi.org/10.1075/is.11.1

Table of Contents

Experimental semiotics: A new approach for studying the emergence and the evolution of human communication Bruno Galantucci and Simon Garrod	1–13
Systematicity and arbitrariness in novel communication systems Carrie Ann Theisen-White, Jon Oberlander and Simon Kirby	14–32
Can iterated learning explain the emergence of graphical symbols? Simon Garrod, Nicolas Fay, Shane Rogers, Bradley Walker and Nik Swoboda	33–50
Exploring the cognitive infrastructure of communication J.P. de Ruiter, Matthijs L. Noordzij, Sarah Newman-Norlund, Roger Newman-Norlund, Peter Hagoort, Stephen C. Levinson and Ivan Toni	51–77
The evolution of communication: Humans may be exceptional Thomas C. Scott-Phillips	78–99
The effects of rapidity of fading on communication systems Bruno Galantucci, Christian Kroos and Theo Rhodes	100–111
Investigating how cultural transmission leads to the appearance of design without a designer in human communication systems Hannah Cornish	112–137
An experimental study of social selection and frequency of interaction in linguistic diversity Gareth Roberts	138–159

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Subjects and metadata

Linguistics

Cognition and language

Evolution of language