Emergence of systematic iconicity: transmission, interaction and analogy

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 2481-2486

  Verhoef, Tessa ^a   Roberts, Seán G ^b   Dingemanse, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

analogy; cultural transmission; iconicity; iterated learning; language evolution; social coordination

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; ANALOGY; COMMUNICATION GAMES; CULTURAL TRANSMISSION; ICONICITY; ICONICS; ITERATED LEARNING; LANGUAGE EVOLUTION; SOCIAL COORDINATION; TRANSMISSION CHAINS;

EID: 84942170009     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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