The Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Structure: From Lexical to Grammatical Communication Systems
The self-organisation of combinatoriality and phonotactics in vocalisation systems
This paper shows how a society of agents can self-organise a shared vocalisation system which is discrete, combinatorial, and has a form of primitive phonotactics, starting from holistic inarticulate vocalisations. The originality of the system is that: 1) it does not include any explicit pressure for communication; 2) agents do not possess capabilities of coordinated […]
Young children confronting the Continuator, an interactive reflective musical system
The Semiotic Dynamics of Color
The interesting and deep commentaries on our target article reflect the continued high interest in the problem of colour categorisation and naming. clearly, colour remains for many cognitive science related disciplines a fascinating microworld in which some of the most fundamental issues for cognition and culture can be studied. although our target article took the […]
How Phonological Structures Can Be Culturally Selected for Learnability
Coordinating Perceptually Grounded Categories Through Language: A Case Study For Colour
This article proposes a number of models to examine through which mechanisms a population of autonomous agents could arrive at a repertoire of perceptually grounded categories that is sufficiently shared to allow successful communication. the models are inspired by the main approaches to human categorisation being discussed in the literature: nativism, empiricism, and culturalism. colour […]