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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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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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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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Rate of language evolution is affected by population size. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015 Bromham L +3 more
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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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Pause Length and Differences in Cognitive State Attribution in Native and Non-Native Speakers
Languages, 2023 Speech pauses between turns of conversations are crucial for assessing conversation partners’ cognitive states, such as their knowledge, confidence and willingness to grant requests; in general, speakers making longer pauses are regarded as less apt and ...
Theresa Matzinger +2 more
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Systematic correspondence in co-evolving languages
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Language co-evolution is an influential cultural force, impacting the past, present, and future of human languages. Systematic correspondence identifies corresponding features in languages evolving together, such as English "d" and German "t" in word ...
Junru Wu, Junyuan Zhao
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Child-directed speech is optimized for syntax-free semantic inference
Scientific Reports, 2021 The way infants learn language is a highly complex adaptive behavior. This behavior chiefly relies on the ability to extract information from the speech they hear and combine it with information from the external environment.
Guanghao You +3 more
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