Abstract
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 with more variable geometric shapes tend to discriminate among shapes. The paper also experimentally shows that “language” affects the way its “speakers” share the view about a novel figure.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 924-945 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Experimental Economics |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 21 Feb 2017 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
The paper builds on an earlier version of the working paper titled ‘‘An Economic Investigation of Linguistic Differences’’ as a joint effort with Wooyoung Lim, and still reflects our earlier collaboration.Publisher Copyright: © 2017, Economic Science Association.
Funding
We thank financial support from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.
Keywords
- Communication games
- Coordination
- Economics of language