Time-to-smile, time-to-speak, time-to-resolve: timescales for shaping engagement in language

Rączaszek-Leonardi, Joanna; Główka, Krzysztof; Nomikou, Iris; Rossmanith, Nicole

doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2022.101495

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“…Here, cognitive science, integrating multiple disciplines from linguistics to psychology to anthropology to computer science, has a good chance to serve as a bridge between the domains. Importantly, due to the recent "ecological turn" toward action-oriented and situated cognitive science, it has the opportunity to integrate processes over the biological, developmental and communication timescales (Christiansen & Chater, 2022;Rączaszek-Leonardi, 2003).…”

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Models of symbol emergence in communication: a conceptual review and a guide for avoiding local minima

Zubek¹,

Korbak²,

Rączaszek-Leonardi³

2023

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Computational simulations are a popular method for testing hypotheses about the emergence of communication. This kind of research is performed in a variety of traditions including language evolution, developmental psychology, cognitive science, machine learning, robotics, etc. The motivations for the models are different, but the operationalizations and methods used are often similar. We identify the assumptions and explanatory targets of several most representative models and summarise the known results. We claim that some of the assumptions -such as portraying meaning in terms of mapping, focusing on the descriptive function of communication, modelling signals with amodal tokens -may hinder the success of modelling. Relaxing these assumptions and foregrounding the interactions of embodied and situated agents allows one to systematise the multiplicity of pressures under which symbolic systems evolve. In line with this perspective, we sketch the road towards modelling the emergence of meaningful symbolic communication, where symbols are simultaneously grounded in action and perception and form an abstract system.

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Models of symbol emergence in communication: a conceptual review and a guide for avoiding local minima

Zubek¹,

Korbak²,

Rączaszek-Leonardi³

2023

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“…The early environment is structured by other people, i.e. by their actions with specific sequences and timings, which are adjusted to accommodate the actions and rhythms of the infant [ 36 , 37 ]. Participation in early co-action becomes a substrate of conceptual knowledge on a par with perhaps more abstract relations according to which such experiences might subsequently be ordered.…”

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Is love an abstract concept? A view of concepts from an interaction-based perspective

Rączaszek-Leonardi

Zubek

2022

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Research concerning concepts in the cognitive sciences has been dominated by the information-processing approach, which has resulted in a certain narrowing of the range of questions and methods of investigation. Recent trends have sought to broaden the scope of such research, but they have not yet been integrated within a theoretical framework that would allow us to reconcile new perspectives with the insights already obtained. In this paper, we focus on the processes involved in early concept acquisition and demonstrate that certain aspects of these processes remain largely understudied. These aspects include the primacy of movement and coordination with others within a structured social environment as well as the importance of first-person experiences pertaining to perception and action. We argue that alternative approaches to cognition, such as ecological psychology, enactivism and interactivism, are helpful for foregrounding these understudied areas. These approaches can complement the extant research concerning concepts to help us obtain a more comprehensive view of knowledge structures, thus providing us with a new perspective on recurring problems, suggesting novel questions and enriching our methodological toolbox. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Concepts in interaction: social engagement and inner experiences’.

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Joining actions through effort sounds: Mothers and infants in routine activities

Nomikou

2023

Language & Communication

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Time-to-smile, time-to-speak, time-to-resolve: timescales for shaping engagement in language

Cited by 9 publications

References 57 publications

Models of symbol emergence in communication: a conceptual review and a guide for avoiding local minima

Models of symbol emergence in communication: a conceptual review and a guide for avoiding local minima

Is love an abstract concept? A view of concepts from an interaction-based perspective

Joining actions through effort sounds: Mothers and infants in routine activities

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