Experimental Semiotics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Experimental semiotics -- 1. Experimental semiotics: Recent past of a growing discipline -- 2. Summary of contributions in this volume -- 3. Future directions -- Notes -- References -- Systematicity and arbitrariness in novel communication systems -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous work -- 3. Current approach -- 4. Experiment -- 4.1 Participants -- 4.2 Apparatus -- 4.3 Stimuli -- 4.4 Rules of the game -- 4.5 Procedure -- 5. Results: An example sign system -- 6. Results: Systematicity -- 6.1 Measuring systematicity -- 6.2 Coding for systematicity -- 6.3 Reliability -- 6.4 Results -- 6.5 Systematicity discussion -- 7. Results: Arbitrariness -- 7.1 Procedure -- 7.2 Results -- 7.3 Arbitrariness discussion -- 8. Final discussion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Appendix A: Instructions to participants -- Appendix B: Instructions for coding systematicity -- Can iterated learning explain the emergence of graphical symbols? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical approaches to the evolution of language -- 3. Experiments on the evolution of graphical communication -- 4. Comparing iterated learning with interactive communication -- 4.1 Experiment -- 4.2 Participants -- 4.3 Task and procedure -- 4.4 Results -- 4.4.1 Identification accuracy -- 4.4.2 Complexity -- 4.4.3 Convergence of signs -- 4.5 Discussion -- 5. General discussion and conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Exploring the cognitive infrastructure of communication -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The role of conventions -- 3. The present study -- 4. The Tacit Communication Game -- 5. Experiment 1 -- 5.1 Method -- 5.1.1 Participants -- 5.1.2 Equipment -- 5.1.3 Procedure -- 5.1.4 Materials -- 5.2 Results -- 6. Experiment 2 -- 6.1 Method -- 6.1.1 Participants -- 6.1.2 Equipment.

6.1.3 Procedure -- 6.1.4 Materials -- 6.2 Results -- 6.3 TCG communication strategies -- 7. Experiment 3 -- 7.1 Method -- 7.1.1 Participants -- 7.1.2 Equipment -- 7.1.3 Procedure -- 7.1.4 Training -- 7.1.5 Materials -- 7.2 Results -- 8. Summary and conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- The evolution of communication: Humans may be exceptional -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The nature of communication -- and the two-step hypothesis of its emergence -- 3. Three case studies of the emergence of communication -- 3.1 Simulated Khepera robots -- 3.2 The evolution of animal signals -- 3.3 Ontogenetic ritualisation -- 4. The Embodied Communication Game -- 5. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- The effects of rapidity of fading on communication systems -- 1. Method -- 1.1 The game -- 1.2 Participants -- 2. Results -- 2.1 Performance -- 2.2 Communicative power -- 2.3 Form recombination -- 3. Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Investigating how cultural transmission leads to the appearance of design without a designer in human communication systems -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Design without a designer -- 3. Iterated language learning -- 4. General methodology -- 5. Recent studies -- 5.1 The data bottleneck -- 5.2 The memory bottleneck -- 5.3 Another kind of bottleneck: Forcing expressivity -- 5.4 Increasing early transmission fidelity -- 6. Future directions -- Notes -- References -- An experimental study of social selection and frequency of interaction in linguistic diversity -- 1. Why we need markers of identity -- 2. Selection in language change -- 3. Description of experiment -- 3.1 Overview -- 3.2 Participants -- 3.3 Game structure -- 3.4 Resources and scoring -- 3.5 Alien language -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Recognising team-mates -- 4.2 Linguistic divergence -- 4.3 Comparison with score -- 4.4 Strategy -- 4.4.1 Identification strategies.

4.4.2 Giving behaviour -- 4.4.3 Relation between strategy and linguistic divergence -- 4.4.4 Summary -- 5. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Index.