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• W2765786633 abstract "Cultural emergence of combinatorial structure in an artificial whistled language Tessa Verhoef (t.verhoef@uva.nl) ACLC, University of Amsterdam 1012 VT, Amsterdam, Netherlands Simon Kirby (simon@ling.ed.ac.uk) LEC, University of Edinburgh Edinburgh EH8 9AD, UK Carol Padden (cpadden@ucsd.edu) CRL, University of California San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0503, USA Abstract such a hypothesis. However, recently research on emerging sign languages, studies of computer simulations and experi- ments with human subjects have provided evidence that can shed light on this hypothesis. Research on a newly emerging sign language, Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL), provides a potential chal- lenge to Hockett’s hypothesis of the emergence of phono- logical structure (Israel & Sandler, 2009; Sandler, Aronoff, Meir, & Padden, 2011). All established sign languages that have been analyzed have been shown to exhibit phonological structure with features of discreteness and recombination as in spoken systems. There is a discrete set of location, hand shape and movement features that are recombined into mean- ingful words and there are constraints on the ways in which features can be combined. ABSL is a young but already fully functional sign language in which the phonological structure does not appear to be fixed yet. This case questions whether the emergence of combinatorial structure is necessarily driven by a growing meaning space alone, because the language is fully functional without such structure. The case of ABSL is rare and the language may change towards using combinatorial structure in future generations. This expectation is supported by several computer models which have shown that sound systems tend to develop dis- crete building blocks or combinatorial structure through self- organization in a population of interacting agents (de Boer, 2000; Oudeyer, 2002, 2005). De Boer and Zuidema (2010) simulated the transition from a system of holistic signals to a combinatorial system in this way. They introduced an impor- tant distinction between two types of combinatorial structure: ‘superficial combinatorial structure’, which is structure that can be identified by an outsider observing the system, but of which the users of the system are not aware; and ‘productive combinatorial structure’, which is structure that is actively used in production, perception, learning or storage of signals (de Boer & Zuidema, 2010). Only superficial combinatorial structure can be observed in this simulation, since it is hard to tell whether the agents are aware of it. Therefore, to be able to study active use of the system, we need to observe human behavior. Kirby, Cornish, and Smith (2008) developed a novel exper- Speech sounds within a linguistic system are both categorical and combinatorial and there are constraints on how elements can be recombined. To investigate the origins of this combina- torial structure, we conducted an iterated learning experiment with human participants, studying the transmission of an arti- ficial system of sounds. In this study, participants learn and recall a system of sounds that are produced with a slide whis- tle, an instrument that is both intuitive and non-linguistic. The system they are exposed to is the recall output of the previ- ous participant. Transmission from participant to participant causes the system to change and become cumulatively more learnable and more structured. This shows that combinatorial structure can culturally emerge in an artificial sound system through iterated learning. Keywords: iterated learning; duality of patterning; combi- natorial structure; phonology; cultural evolution; emergence; learnability Introduction In human languages, a finite set of basic speech sounds (phonemes) is combined into a (potentially) unlimited set of well-formed morphemes (words, clitics, grammatical mark- ers etc.). Hockett (1960) placed this phenomenon under the umbrella of ‘duality of patterning’ and listed it as one of the basic design features of human language. Such combinatorial structure requires a continuous signal space to be organized into a discrete set of basic building blocks that are reused in a systematic way (Oudeyer, 2006). In addition, there are con- straints (e.g. phonotactic) on the ways the basic elements can be recombined. The specific building blocks and the rules for their recombination differ from one language to the other, but are shared among all members of a speech community. This paper presents an experimental investigation into how combi- natorial organization of (acoustic) signals may have emerged. Hockett (1960) suggested a possible advantage for a lan- guage that uses combinatorial structure: If there is a limit on how accurately signals can be produced and perceived, there is a practical limit to the number of distinct signals that can be discriminated. When a larger number of meanings needs to be expressed, structured (sequential) recombination of elements is needed to maintain clear communication. Not much data was available to Hockett regarding the origins of combinato- rial structure that could be used as evidence in favor or against" @default.
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