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    "pk": 26844,
    "title": "Creating words from iterated vocal imitation",
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    "abstract": "We report the results of a large-scale (N=1571) experiment toinvestigate whether spoken words can emerge from the processof repeated imitation. Participants played a version of the chil-dren’s game “Telephone”. The first generation was asked toimitate recognizable environmental sounds (e.g., glass break-ing, water splashing); subsequent generations imitated the im-itators for a total of 8 generations. We then examined whetherthe vocal imitations became more stable and word-like, re-tained a resemblance to the original sound, and became moresuitable as learned category labels. The results showed (1) theimitations became progressively more word-like, (2) even af-ter 8 generations, they could be matched above chance to theenvironmental sound that motivated them, and (3) imitationsfrom later generations were more effective as learned cate-gory labels. These results show how repeated imitation cancreate progressively more word-like forms while retaining asemblance of iconicity.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "categorization; transmission chain; language evo-lution"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Talks: Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3bj5w55m",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Pierce",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Edmiston",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Wisconsin-Madison",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Marcus",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Perlman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Gary",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lupyan",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Wisconsi -Madison",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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