The emergence of simple languages in an experimental coordination game

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 104, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 7361-7366

  Selten, Reinhard ^a   Warglien, Massimo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Communication; Compositionality; Economics of language

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; GAME; WRITING;

CORRESPONDENCE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE;

EID: 34250685398     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0702077104     Document Type: Article

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