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Accelerating language emergence by functional pressures. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 In language emergence, neural agents acquire communication skills by interacting with one another and the environment. Through these interactions, agents learn to connect or ground their observations to the messages they utter, forming a shared consensus
Kasun Vithanage +5 more
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Prenatal and perinatal risks for late language emergence in a population-level sample of twins at age 2 [PDF]
BMC Pediatrics, 2018 Background Late Language Emergence (LLE) in the first two years of life is one of the most common parental concerns about child development and reasons for seeking advice from health professionals.
Catherine L. Taylor +4 more
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Agent-based modelling using naming game for language evolution studies [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 The article describes approaches to applying agent-based modelling and, particularly, the case of Naming Game, in linguistic studies and within teaching foreign languages.
Ilyinsky Alexander Ioilyevich +4 more
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Languages, 2022 At a language’s inception, what determines which elements are taken up to build a grammar? How is the initial raw material reshaped through intergenerational language learning?
Annemarie Kocab +2 more
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Lexical overlap in young sign languages from Guatemala
Glossa, 2022 In communities without older standardized sign languages, deaf people develop their own sign languages and strategies for communicating. These languages vary across several dimensions, including their age, their distribution within the wider spoken ...
Laura Horton
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Emergence or Grammaticalization? The Case of Negation in Kata Kolok
Languages, 2022 Typological comparisons have revealed that signers can use manual elements and/or a non-manual marker to express standard negation, but little is known about how such systematic marking emerges from its gestural counterparts as a new sign language arises.
Hannah Lutzenberger +2 more
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Glossa, 2022 Research on emerging sign languages suggests that younger sign languages may make greater use of the z-axis, moving outwards from the body, than more established sign languages when describing the relationships between participants and events (Padden et ...
Asha Sato, Molly Flaherty, Simon Kirby
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Simultaneous structures in sign languages: Acquisition and emergence
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The visual-gestural modality affords its users simultaneous movement of several independent articulators and thus lends itself to simultaneous encoding of information.
Cornelia Loos +2 more
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The Grammatical Incorporation of Demonstratives in an Emerging Tactile Language
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 In this article, we analyze the grammatical incorporation of demonstratives in a tactile language, emerging in communities of DeafBlind signers in the US who communicate via reciprocal, tactile channels—a practice known as “protactile.” In the first part
Terra Edwards, Diane Brentari
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Structural types of repetitions in the Nakh languages [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2023 There remains controversy over whether paired words should be attributed to word constituents. No comprehensive study of paired words has been conducted in modern Chechen. A relatively complete description of the nature of Chechen pair-words can be found
Suleybanova Marzhan
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