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Combinatorial structure and iconicity in artificial whistled languages
Boekbijdrage - Boekhoofdstuk Conferentiebijdrage
This article reports on an experiment in which artificial lan-
guages with whistle words for novel objects are culturally
transmitted in the laboratory. The aim of this study is to in-
vestigate the origins and evolution of combinatorial structure
in speech. Participants learned the whistled language and re-
produced the sounds with the use of a slide whistle. Their
reproductions were used as input for the next participant. Cul-
tural transmission caused the whistled systems to become more
learnable and more structured. In addition, two conditions
were studied: one in which the use of iconic form-meaning
mappings was possible and one in which the use of iconic map-
pings was experimentally made impossible, so that we could
investigate the influence of iconicity on the emergence of structure.
guages with whistle words for novel objects are culturally
transmitted in the laboratory. The aim of this study is to in-
vestigate the origins and evolution of combinatorial structure
in speech. Participants learned the whistled language and re-
produced the sounds with the use of a slide whistle. Their
reproductions were used as input for the next participant. Cul-
tural transmission caused the whistled systems to become more
learnable and more structured. In addition, two conditions
were studied: one in which the use of iconic form-meaning
mappings was possible and one in which the use of iconic map-
pings was experimentally made impossible, so that we could
investigate the influence of iconicity on the emergence of structure.
Boek: Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics Proceedings of the 3 5 th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Pagina's: 3669-3674
Aantal pagina's: 6
ISBN:978-0-9768318-9-1
Jaar van publicatie:2013
Trefwoorden:combinatorial structure, iconicity, iterated learning