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Expressibility ratings efficiently predict communication success across modalities like gesture and vocalization. This method enables larger studies on language origins and nonlinguistic communication abilities.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Linguistics
  • Evolutionary Biology

Background:

  • Referential communication experiments offer insights into language origins.
  • Traditional experiments are resource-intensive, limiting scope and diversity.
  • Expressibility ratings offer an efficient alternative for studying communication modalities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Validate expressibility ratings as an efficient alternative to production experiments.
  • Assess the communicative success of different modalities (gesture, vocalization, combined).
  • Investigate potential biases in concept selection for stimuli.

Main Methods:

  • Collected expressibility ratings for 207 concepts across gesture-only, vocalization-only, and combined modalities.
  • Empirically validated ratings against a production experiment with 84 concepts.
  • Measured communicative success via accuracy and semantic similarity.

Main Results:

  • Expressibility ratings reliably predicted communicative success (guessability and fewer corrective attempts).
  • Gesture-only and combined modalities outperformed vocalization-only.
  • Simulations found no systematic bias favoring gestural superiority.

Conclusions:

  • Expressibility ratings are a valid and efficient tool for studying nonlinguistic communication.
  • This method allows for larger-scale investigations with enhanced statistical power.
  • Findings highlight human intuition regarding nonlinguistic communicative abilities.