{"id":2856,"date":"2018-06-21T14:29:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T13:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lel.ed.ac.uk\/cle\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2018-07-02T15:21:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T14:21:18","slug":"tuesday-22-may-marieke-woensdregt-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/2018\/06\/21\/tuesday-22-may-marieke-woensdregt-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"26 June: Laura de Rooij"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cultural transmission in an iterated learning task: the effect of animated motion on language structure<\/b><\/h3>\n

Laura de Rooij\u00a0(University of Edinburgh)<\/p>\n

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Tuesday 26 June 2018, 11:30\u201312.30<\/div>\n
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Research by Kirby, Cornish, & Smith (2008) has demonstrated that\u00a0compositional\u00a0structure can evolve in the laboratory over repeated transmission in an iterated learning paradigm. Reanalysis of their data by Beckner, Pierrehumbert, & Hay (2017) indicates that the semantic dimension\u00a0motion\u00a0lead\u00a0the way in the development of\u00a0compositional\u00a0structure. Beckner et al. suggested this be evidence for a cognitive bias involving particular attention to motion. However, motion in Kirby et al. was represented abstractly with arrows, which therefore may have been interpreted as part of the shape, rather than actual (animated) movement. The current study investigates the emergence of compositional structure for the semantic dimensions\u00a0shape,\u00a0color, and\u00a0animated motion, encompassing seven chains in two experiment versions. We found that not motion exerted most influence on novel language creation, but that the shape dimension did. That is, structured mappings between meanings and forms developed more strongly for shape than for color or motion. Implications of these results will be discussed.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cultural transmission in an iterated learning task: the effect of animated motion on language structure Laura de Rooij\u00a0(University of Edinburgh) Tuesday 26 June 2018, 11:30\u201312.30 DSB\u00a01.20 Research by Kirby, Cornish, & Smith (2008) has demonstrated that\u00a0compositional\u00a0structure can evolve in the laboratory over repeated transmission in an iterated learning paradigm. Reanalysis of their data by Beckner, … Continue reading 26 June: Laura de Rooij<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2857,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions\/2857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}