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Misyak, Jennifer B., Noguchi, Takao and Chater, Nick (2016) Instantaneous conventions : the emergence of flexible communicative signals. Psychological Science, 27 (12). pp. 1550-1561. doi:10.1177/0956797616661199 ISSN 1467-9280.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797616661199
Abstract
Humans can communicate even with few existing conventions in common (e.g., when they lack a shared language). We explored what makes this phenomenon possible with a nonlinguistic experimental task requiring participants to coordinate towards a common goal. We observed participants creating new communicative conventions using the most minimal possible signals. These conventions, furthermore, changed trial-by-trial in response to shared environmental and task constraints. Strikingly, as a result, signals of the same form were able to successfully convey contradictory messages from trial to trial. Such behavior implicates what we term "joint inference," in which social interactants are inferring, in the moment, the most sensible communicative convention in light of their common ground. Joint inference may help to elucidate how communicative conventions emerge “instantaneously,” and how they are modified and reshaped into the elaborate systems of conventions involved in human communication, including natural languages.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Nonverbal communication, Pragmatics | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Psychological Science | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1467-9280 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 December 2016 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 27 | ||||||||
Number: | 12 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1550-1561 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0956797616661199 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 7 July 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 November 2016 | ||||||||
Funder: | European Research Council (ERC), Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC), Leverhulme Trust (LT), Research Councils UK (RCUK) | ||||||||
Grant number: | 295917-RATIONALITY (ERC), ES/K002201/1 (ESRC), RP2012-V-022 (LT), EP/K039830/1 (RCUK) | ||||||||
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Adapted As: | Official acceptance date from journal (5 July 2016) differs from dated letter of acceptance (27 June 2016, entered above; email received 28 June 2016), and reflects the date when all files and formal paperwork for production have been received by the journal’s editorial office. | ||||||||
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