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Integrating the Horizontal and Vertical Cultural Transmission of Novel Communication Systems

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: In recent experimental work on the emergence of novel communication systems, the cultural transmission has tended to be either horizontal or vertical.We present an experiment that integrates the two.Results show that both methods of transmission do some work.

Source: eScholarship (California Digital Library)

Authors: Carrie Ann Theisen-White, Simon Kirby, Jon Oberlander

Institution: Yeshiva University

Language: English

Topic: Language and cultural evolution

Subfield: Cultural Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: European Commission, Jiangsu Association for Science and Technology, FP7 Information and Communication Technologies

Awards: G2203972493, Joint Action for Multimodal Embodied Social Systems

OpenAlex ID: W2183805656

FWCI: 32.44

Cites: 13

Cited by: 23

Related to: 10