Carrie Ann Theisen-White

List of John Benjamins publications in which Carrie Ann Theisen-White is involved.

Articles

Theisen-White, Carrie Ann, Jon Oberlander and Simon Kirby 2012 Systematicity and arbitrariness in novel communication systems Experimental Semiotics: Studies on the emergence and evolution of human communication, Galantucci, Bruno and Simon Garrod (eds.), pp. 15–32 | Article

Arbitrariness and systematicity are two of language’s most fascinating properties. Although both are characterizations of the mappings between signals and meanings, their emergence and evolution in communication systems has generally been explored independently. We present an experiment in which… read more

Theisen-White, Carrie Ann, Jon Oberlander and Simon Kirby 2010 Systematicity and arbitrariness in novel communication systems Experimental Semiotics: A new approach for studying the emergence and the evolution of human communication, Galantucci, Bruno and Simon Garrod (eds.), pp. 14–32 | Article

Arbitrariness and systematicity are two of language’s most fascinating properties. Although both are characterizations of the mappings between signals and meanings, their emergence and evolution in communication systems has generally been explored independently. We present an experiment in which… read more