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
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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