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Title: | The emergence of compositional grammars in artificial codes | Authors: | Hong, Fuhai Lim, Wooyoung Zhao, Xiaojian |
Keywords: | Economics of language Communication games |
Issue Date: | 2017 | Source: | Hong, F., Lim, W., & Zhao, X. (2017). The emergence of compositional grammars in artificial codes. Games and Economic Behavior, 102, 255-268. | Series/Report no.: | Games and Economic Behavior | Abstract: | This paper experimentally explores how compositional grammars in artificial codes emerge and are sustained. In a communication game with no conflict of interest, the sender sends a message that is an arbitrary string from available symbols with no prior meaning to indicate an abstract geometrical figure to the receiver. We find strong evidence from the laboratory for the emergence of compositional grammars in the subjects' common codes that facilitate learning efficiency. Moreover, when there is a scarcity of symbols in the repertoire, a few groups in our experiments developed languages with positional compositionality, meaning the same symbol has different interpretations depending on its position in a string, whereas some other groups developed language structures that are not compositional but still efficient in communication. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83234 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42503 |
ISSN: | 0899-8256 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.geb.2016.12.009 | Schools: | School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Rights: | © 2017 Elsevier Inc. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2016.12.009]. | Fulltext Permission: | open | Fulltext Availability: | With Fulltext |
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