The Interactive Origin of Iconicity
| Autor: | J. Isidro Martínez, Julio Santiago, Monica Tamariz, Sean G. Roberts |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Cognitive Neuroscience
media_common.quotation_subject Cultural evolution Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Variation (game tree) Interpersonal communication Outcome (game theory) 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Artificial Intelligence Cultural Evolution Selection (linguistics) Humans Learning 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Students Sociocultural evolution Language media_common 05 social sciences Linguistics Constructed language Negotiation Spain Iterated learning Iconicity Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Tamariz, M, Roberts, S G, Martínez, J I & Santiago, J 2018, ' The Interactive Origin of Iconicity ', Cognitive Science, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 334-349 . https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12497, https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12497 Cognitive Science |
| ISSN: | 0364-0213 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/cogs.12497 |
| Popis: | We investigate the emergence of iconicity, specifically a bouba-kiki effect in miniature artificial languages under different functional constraints: when the languages are reproduced and when they are used communicatively. We ran transmission chains of (a) participant dyads who played an interactive communicative game and (b) individual participants who played a matched learning game. An analysis of the languages over six generations in an iterated learning experiment revealed that in the Communication condition, but not in the Reproduction condition, words for spiky shapes tend to be rated by naive judges as more spiky than the words for round shapes. This suggests that iconicity may not only be the outcome of innovations introduced by individuals, but, crucially, the result of interlocutor negotiation of new communicative conventions. We interpret our results as an illustration of cultural evolution by random mutation and selection (as opposed to by guided variation). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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