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PLoS Biology, 2004 How did language develop and evolve? Here, linguists, cognitive scientists, behavioural ecologists, and theoretical biologists all offer their disparate views on this emerging ...
Szabolcs Számadó, Eörs Szathmáry
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Williams Syndrome, Human Self-Domestication, and Language Evolution [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Language evolution resulted from changes in our biology, behavior, and culture. One source of these changes might be human self-domestication. Williams syndrome (WS) is a clinical condition with a clearly defined genetic basis which results in a ...
Amy Niego, Antonio Benítez-Burraco
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Human language evolution: a view from theoretical linguistics on how syntax and the lexicon first came into being. [PDF]
Primates, 2022 Fujita H, Fujita K.
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Rhythmic Roots: The Adaptive Functions of Vocal Isochrony and Its Role in Human Music and Language Evolution [PDF]
Psychological TopicsIsochrony, or the regular timing of sounds, is a prominent rhythmic feature of human music and can also be found in the vocalisations of non-human animals.
Julia V. Grabner +4 more
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Why language really is not a communication system [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 While most evolutionary scenarios for language see it as a communication system with consequences on the language-ready brain, there are major difficulties for such a view. First, language has a core combination of features—semanticity, discrete infinity,
Anne Colette Reboul
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Storytelling, behavior planning, and language evolution in context. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2014 McBride G.
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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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Modeling Language Evolution [PDF]
Foundations of Computational Mathematics, 2004 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Cucker, Felipe +2 more
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Multi-variate coding for possession: methodology and preliminary results
Linguistics, 2023 In this work we are presenting a database structure to encode the phenomenon of differential possession across languages, considering noun possession classes and possessive constructions as independent but linked.
Chousou-Polydouri Natalia +3 more
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Challenges in detecting evolutionary forces in language change using diachronic corpora
Glossa, 2020 Newberry et al. (Detecting evolutionary forces in language change, Nature 551, 2017) tackle an important but difficult problem in linguistics, the testing of selective theories of language change against a null model of drift.
Andres Karjus +3 more
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