Within character shapes, any repetitious forms, eg, a series of identical dots, waves, lines, will become abbreviated. In other words, standard repetitions will come to be inferred.
2. The Vai character set will exhibit greater speed of change in earlier generations than in later generations. In other words, there is a half-life for script change.
There will be greater levels of redundancy in earlier generations, measured by grapheme inventory size, presence/absence of allographic variation
We propose an analysis of field data from a real-world setting that will either provide the first validation of graphic-based semiotic transmission experiments. Or if not, our study will reveal that these experiments have less explanatory power than their authors have presumed.