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Abstract

Children learn language from their parents and then use the acquired system throughout the rest of their life with little change. At least that is commonly assumed. But a recent paper by Galantucci adds to the growing evidence that adults (and children) are able to create and negotiate complex communication systems from scratch and relatively quickly, without a prior model. This raises questions of what cognitive mechanisms are implied in this joint construction of communication systems, and what the implications are for the origins of human language.

@article{steels06humanCommunicationTICS,
  author={Luc Steels},
  title={Experiments on the emergence of human communication},
  journal={Trends in Cognitive Sciences},
  year={2006},
  month={August},
  volume={10},
  number={8},
  pages={347-349},
  doi={10.1016/j.tics.2006.06.002},
  url={http://groups.lis.illinois.edu/amag/langev/paper/steels06humanCommunicationTICS.html}
}