Alicia Chen (@aliciamchen.bsky.social)

Human speech is continuous, and many meaning spaces (like color) are continuous too. Yet we use discrete words like “blue” and “green” that carve these spaces into categories. In our new paper, we ask: How do people turn continuous spaces into structured, word-like systems for communication? (1/8)

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Discrete and systematic communication in a continuous signal-meaning space Abstract. Human spoken language uses a continuous stream of acoustic signals to communicate about continuous features of the world, by using discrete forms https://academic.oup.com/jole/article-abstract/10/1/lzaf003/8342268

7 months ago