The emergence of language differences in artificial codes

• Main Authors: Hong, Fuhai, Zhao, Xiaojian
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Communication Games; Coordination; Social sciences::Communication
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82730; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/50408
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The paper studies how common codes of artificial language in communication are developed in the laboratory. We find that codes emerging from an environment with more variable spatial positions tend to use a limited set of symbols to represent positions, whereas codes emerging from an environment wit...