Systems from Sequences: an Iterated Learning Account of the Emergence of Systematic Structure in a Non-Linguistic Task

Hannah Cornish; Kenny Smith; Simon Kirby

Systems from Sequences: an Iterated Learning Account of the Emergence of Systematic Structure in a Non-Linguistic Task

Hannah Cornish, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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Systematicity is a basic property of language and other culturally transmitted behaviours. Utilising a novel experimental task consisting of initially independent sequence learning trials, we demonstrate that systematicity can unfold gradually via the process of cultural transmission.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of Cogsci 2013
Pages	340-345
ISBN (Electronic)	978-0-9768318-9-1
Publication status	Published - 2013

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The emergence and development of structural systematicity in language: an experimental study
Kirby, S.
ESRC
1/02/09 → 16/11/11
Project: Research

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