The Cultural Evolution of Human Communication Systems in Different Sized Populations: Usability Trumps Learnability

Title
The Cultural Evolution of Human Communication Systems in Different Sized Populations: Usability Trumps Learnability
Authors
Keywords
Evolutionary linguistics, Learning, Language, Human learning, Language acquisition, Social communication, Games, Psycholinguistics
Journal
PLoS One
Volume 8, Issue 8, Pages e71781
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Online
2013-08-16
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0071781

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