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  Gene-culture coevolution of a linguistic system in two modalities

Roberts, S. G., & De Vos, C. (2014). Gene-culture coevolution of a linguistic system in two modalities. In B. De Boer, & T. Verhoef (Eds.), Proceedings of Evolang X, Workshop on Signals, Speech, and Signs (pp. 23-27).

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Roberts, Sean G.1, Author           
De Vos, Connie2, 3, Author           
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1Language and Cognition Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, ou_792548              
2INTERACT, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, ou_1863331              
3Language and Cognition Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, Nijmegen, NL, ou_792548              

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 Abstract: Complex communication can take place in a range of modalities such as auditory, visual, and tactile modalities. In a very general way, the modality that individuals use is constrained by their biological biases (humans cannot use magnetic fields directly to communicate to each other). The majority of natural languages have a large audible component. However, since humans can learn sign languages just as easily, it’s not clear to what extent the prevalence of spoken languages is due to biological biases, the social environment or cultural inheritance. This paper suggests that we can explore the relative contribution of these factors by modelling the spontaneous emergence of sign languages that are shared by the deaf and hearing members of relatively isolated communities. Such shared signing communities have arisen in enclaves around the world and may provide useful insights by demonstrating how languages evolve as the deaf proportion of its members has strong biases towards the visual language modality. In this paper we describe a model of cultural evolution in two modalities, combining aspects that are thought to impact the emergence of sign languages in a more general evolutionary framework. The model can be used to explore hypotheses about how sign languages emerge.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 20142014
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Title: 10th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EvoLang X), Workshop on Signals, Speech and Signs
Place of Event: Vienna, Austria
Start-/End Date: 2014-04-14

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Title: Proceedings of Evolang X, Workshop on Signals, Speech, and Signs
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