Hannah Little

List of John Benjamins publications in which Hannah Little is involved.

Articles

Little, Hannah, Heikki Rasilo, Sabine van der Ham and Kerem Eryılmaz 2017 Empirical approaches for investigating the origins of structure in speech Interaction and Iconicity in the Evolution of Language, Hartmann, Stefan, Michael Pleyer, James Winters and Jordan Zlatev (eds.), pp. 330–351 | Article

In language evolution research, the use of computational and experimental methods to investigate the emergence of structure in language is exploding. In this review, we look exclusively at work exploring the emergence of structure in speech, on both a categorical level (what drives the emergence… read more

Little, Hannah, Kerem Eryılmaz and Bart de Boer 2017 Conventionalisation and discrimination as competing pressures on continuous speech-like signals Interaction and Iconicity in the Evolution of Language, Hartmann, Stefan, Michael Pleyer, James Winters and Jordan Zlatev (eds.), pp. 352–375 | Article

Arbitrary communication systems can emerge from iconic beginnings through processes of conventionalisation via interaction. Here, we explore whether this process of conventionalisation occurs with continuous, auditory signals. We conducted an artificial signalling experiment. Participants either… read more