humans are virtuosos at the game of charades
game of charades bases on the commpon context, known by all players. Or it will not succeed. It is very strange idea use it as a metaphor for the origin of the language.
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- Dec 2021
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there is considerable potential for iconicity in vocalisation after all
very basic at best
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Yet, this study had a limitation: all of the contestants and listeners were speakers of English. Thus, it was possible that listeners’ success relied on some cultural knowledge that they shared with the vocalisers.
lol exactly
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These facts regarding the ubiquity and the uniqueness of iconicity in human communication might seem at odds with the reigning theory that speech is an arbitrary code that is characteristically lacking in iconicity.
No, not at odds.
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