Veit, Walter and Browning, Heather (2023) The Design Space of Human Communication and the Non-Evolution of Ideography. [Preprint]

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Abstract

Despite the once-common idea that a universal ideography would have numerous advantages, attempts to develop such ideographies have failed. Here, we make use of the biological idea of fitness landscapes to help us understand the non-evolution of such a universal ideographic code as well as how we might reach this potential global fitness peak in the design space.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Veit, Walter wrwveit@gmail.com 0000-0001-7701-8995 Browning, Heather heather.browning@anu.edu.au 0000-0003-1554-7052
Keywords:	ideography; design space; communication; evolution of languages
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Anthropology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Cultural Evolution
Depositing User:	Dr. Walter Veit
Date Deposited:	13 Jan 2023 14:00
Last Modified:	15 Feb 2023 01:06
Item ID:	21656
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Anthropology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Cultural Evolution
Date:	2023
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21656

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