The emergence of language differences in artificial codes
Author
Hong, Fuhai
Zhao, Xiaojian
Date of Issue
2017School
School of Social Sciences
Version
Accepted version
Abstract
The paper studies how common codes of artificial language in communication are developed in the laboratory. We find that codes emerging from an environment with more variable spatial positions tend to use a limited set of symbols to represent positions, whereas codes emerging from an environment with more variable geometric shapes tend to discriminate among shapes. The paper also experimentally shows that “language” affects the way its “speakers” share the view about a novel figure.
Subject
Communication Games
Coordination
Social sciences::Communication
Coordination
Social sciences::Communication
Type
Journal Article
Series/Journal Title
Experimental Economics
Rights
© 2017 Economic Science Association. All rights reserved.
This paper was published by Springer in Experimental Economics and is made available with permission of Economic Science Association.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10683-017-9518-3
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