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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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The mystery of language evolution. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2014 Understanding the evolution of language requires evidence regarding origins and processes that led to change. In the last 40 years, there has been an explosion of research on this problem as well as a sense that considerable progress has been made. We argue instead that the richness of ideas is accompanied by a poverty of evidence, with essentially no ...
Hauser MD +7 more
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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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Learning Bias, Cultural Evolution of Language, and the Biological Evolution of the Language Faculty [PDF]
Human Biology, 2011 The biases of individual language learners act to determine the learnability and cultural stability of languages: learners come to the language learning task with biases which make certain linguistic systems easier to acquire than others. These biases are repeatedly applied during the process of language transmission, and consequently should effect the
Kenny Smith
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The Social Evolution of Language, and the Language of Social Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology, 2007 Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in the evolution of the human capacity for language. Such a project is necessarily interdisciplinary. However, that interdisciplinarity brings with it a risk: terms with a technical meaning in their own field are used wrongly or too loosely by those from other backgrounds.
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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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The evolution of language [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1999 The emergence of language was a defining moment in the evolution of modern humans. It was an innovation that changed radically the character of human society. Here, we provide an approach to language evolution based on evolutionary game theory. We explore the ways in which protolanguages can evolve in a nonlinguistic society and how specific signals ...
M A, Nowak, D C, Krakauer
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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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