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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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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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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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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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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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Language Acquisition Meets Language Evolution [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 2010 AbstractRecent research suggests that language evolution is a process of cultural change, in which linguistic structures are shaped through repeated cycles of learning and use by domain‐general mechanisms. This paper draws out the implications of this viewpoint for understanding the problem of language acquisition, which is cast in a new, and much more
Nick, Chater, Morten H, Christiansen
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Cross-Dialectal Novel Word Learning and Borrowing
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The objective of this paper was to study the cognitive processes underlying cross-dialectal novel word borrowing and loanword establishment in a Standard-Chinese-to-Shanghainese (SC-SH) auditory lexical learning and borrowing experiment.
Junru Wu +5 more
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The Evolution of Ambiguity in Sender—Receiver Signaling Games
Games, 2022 We study an extended version of a sender–receiver signaling game—a context-signaling (CS) game that involves external contextual cues that provide information about a sender’s private information state.
Roland Mühlenbernd +2 more
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