Discrete and systematic communication in a continuous signal-meaning space

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<p>Human spoken language uses a continuous stream of acoustic signals to communicate about continuous features of the world, by using discrete forms — words — that segment the world into categories. Here we investigate how discreteness (the segmentation of a continuous signal space into discrete forms) and systematicity (the consistent alignment of these forms with what they refer to in the world) can emerge under...

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• Biological Evolution
• Phenotype
• Phylogeny
• Reproducibility of Results

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0044d1ff-39f2-5c58-82ce-ba6db051b353

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10.31234/osf.io/zrjqg