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    "title": "Shifting meanings: The fluidity of signal-meaning mappings in a minimalcommunicative task",
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    "abstract": "We used a non-linguistic experimental paradigm to explore the instantaneous creation of new communicative con-ventions. Participants played a computer game, in which they sent and interpreted minimal signals to obtain shared rewardswithin a virtual scene. Trials manipulated the space of possible signals that could be sent, and the meanings to be expressed (lo-cations and quantities of rewards); as such, optimal success in the task required participants to jointly construct signal-meaningmappings that functioned as part of a system, rather than in isolation.We observed different signalling strategies among participants, but with some individuals using ‘system-mapping’ conven-tions that globally reorganized in light of changing task constraints. Such behaviour reflects the principle of pre-emption inpragmatics, where the inferred meaning of an utterance depends on its relationship among a set of alternatives. Our initialfindings provide a basis for future research, investigating contexts that are conducive to this phenomenon.",
    "language": "eng",
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        {
            "first_name": "Jennifer",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Misyak",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Warwick",
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        {
            "first_name": "Takao",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Noguchi",
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            "institution": "University of Warwick",
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        },
        {
            "first_name": "Nick",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Chater",
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            "institution": "University of Warwick",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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