A number of experiments have explored how signal-meaning mappings come to be shared (however, see [6] for the limitations of treating languages as mappings).
Linguistic signals fulfil their communicative function because they have conventionally associated meanings which are shared by a community of speakers. A number of experiments have explored how signal-meaning mappings come to be shared (however, see [6] for the limitations of treating languages as mappings). Fay et al. [35••] used a graphical communication design in which a microsociety of participants (Figure 3) played naming games based on a ‘pictionary’ task: a participant had to draw a