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Cultural evolution of categorization [PDF]

open access: yesCognitive Systems Research, 2018
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Pablo Contreras Kallens   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Curating and extending data for language comparison in Concepticon and NoRaRe [version 3; peer review: 2 approved]

open access: yesOpen Research Europe, 2023
Language comparison requires user-friendly tools that facilitate the standardization of linguistic data. We present two resources built on the basis of a standardized cross-linguistic format and show how the data is curated and extended.
Robert Forkel   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Curating and extending data for language comparison in Concepticon and NoRaRe [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

open access: yesOpen Research Europe, 2023
Language comparison requires user-friendly tools that facilitate the standardization of linguistic data. We present two resources built on the basis of a standardized cross-linguistic format and show how the data is curated and extended.
Robert Forkel   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social Learning Strategies and Cooperative Behaviour: Evidence of Payoff Bias, but Not Prestige or Conformity, in a Social Dilemma Game

open access: yesGames, 2021
Human cooperation, occurring without reciprocation and between unrelated individuals in large populations, represents an evolutionary puzzle. One potential explanation is that cooperative behaviour may be transmitted between individuals via social ...
Robin Watson   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Grammars Across Time Analyzed (GATA): a dataset of 52 languages

open access: yesScientific Data, 2023
Grammars Across Time Analyzed (GATA) is a resource capturing two snapshots of the grammatical structure of a diverse range of languages separated in time, aimed at furthering research on historical linguistics, language evolution, and cultural change ...
Frederic Blum   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Culture: persistence and evolution [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economic Growth, 2019
This paper documents the speed of evolution (or lack thereof) of a range of values and beliefs of different generations of US immigrants, and interprets the evidence in the light of a model of socialization and identity choice. Convergence to the norm differs greatly across cultural attitudes.
Giavazzi, Francesco   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Automated identification of borrowings in multilingual wordlists [version 3; peer review: 4 approved]

open access: yesOpen Research Europe, 2022
Although lexical borrowing is an important aspect of language evolution, there have been few attempts to automate the identification of borrowings in lexical datasets.
Robert Forkel, Johann-Mattis List
doaj   +1 more source

The nature of culture : an eight-grade model for the evolution and expansion of cultural capacities in hominins and other animals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Tracing the evolution of human culture through time is arguably one of the most controversial and complex scholarly endeavors, and a broad evolutionary analysis of how symbolic, linguistic, and cultural capacities emerged and developed in our species is ...
Collard, Mark   +22 more
core   +1 more source

Dogs display owner-specific expectations based on olfaction

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Most current knowledge about dogs’ understanding of, and reacting to, their environment is limited to the visual or auditory modality, but it remains unclear how olfaction and cognition are linked together.
Juliane Bräuer, Damian Blasi
doaj   +1 more source

Software cultures and evolution [PDF]

open access: yesComputer, 2001
To work effectively with legacy code, software engineers need to understand a legacy computer program's culture - the combination of the programmer's background, the hardware environment and the programming techniques that guided its creation. Software systems typically pass through a series of stages.
Václav Rajlich   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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