The diffusion of novel signs beyond the dyad
We present a study aimed at investigating how novel signs emerge and spread through a community of interacting individuals. Ten triads of participants played a game in which players created novel signs in order to communicate with each other while constantly rotating between the role of interlocutor...
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2012
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| author | Galantucci, B. Theisen, C. Gutierrez, E. Kroos, Christian Rhodes, T. |
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| description | We present a study aimed at investigating how novel signs emerge and spread through a community of interacting individuals. Ten triads of participants played a game in which players created novel signs in order to communicate with each other while constantly rotating between the role of interlocutor and that of observer. The main result of the study was that, for a majority of the triads, communicative success was not shared by the three dyads of players in a triad. This imbalance appears to be due to individual differences in game performance as well as to uncooperative behaviors. We suggest that both of these are magnified by the social dynamics induced by the role rotations in the game. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-164462018-03-29T09:07:21Z The diffusion of novel signs beyond the dyad Galantucci, B. Theisen, C. Gutierrez, E. Kroos, Christian Rhodes, T. We present a study aimed at investigating how novel signs emerge and spread through a community of interacting individuals. Ten triads of participants played a game in which players created novel signs in order to communicate with each other while constantly rotating between the role of interlocutor and that of observer. The main result of the study was that, for a majority of the triads, communicative success was not shared by the three dyads of players in a triad. This imbalance appears to be due to individual differences in game performance as well as to uncooperative behaviors. We suggest that both of these are magnified by the social dynamics induced by the role rotations in the game. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16446 10.1016/j.langsci.2012.03.013 Elsevier restricted |
| spellingShingle | Galantucci, B. Theisen, C. Gutierrez, E. Kroos, Christian Rhodes, T. The diffusion of novel signs beyond the dyad |
| title | The diffusion of novel signs beyond the dyad |
| title_full | The diffusion of novel signs beyond the dyad |
| title_fullStr | The diffusion of novel signs beyond the dyad |
| title_full_unstemmed | The diffusion of novel signs beyond the dyad |
| title_short | The diffusion of novel signs beyond the dyad |
| title_sort | diffusion of novel signs beyond the dyad |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16446 |