9 November: DCLRS -- Friday, November 12 -- Pat Healey
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Speaker: Dr. Pat Healey, London
venue: Davis Lecture Theatre (Arts Building Room 2043)
Trinity College, University of Dublin
time: 4:00-6:00, Friday, November 12, 2004
title:
Graphical Language Games: Interactional Constraints on Representation
abstract:
The emergence of shared symbol systems is considered to be a watershed
in human evolution and human development. These changes are normally
explained by appeal to increased sophistication in people's internal
cognitive processes. We present experimental evidence that changes in
the external, collaborative processes that people use to communicate
also affect the structure and organisation of symbol systems
independently of cognitive change. Specifically, we propose that
mutual-modifiablity-opportunities for people to edit or amend each
other's contributions- is a key mechanism in the emergence of complex
symbol systems. We discuss the implications for models of language
development and the origins of compositionality.
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