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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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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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Osteogenesis and neurogenesis: a robust link also for language evolution [PDF]
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2015 Cedric eBoeckx +2 more
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Language evolution puzzle [PDF]
Current Biology, 2010 SummaryThe task of unravelling the remarkable development of human languages has become more complex according to a new study. Nigel Williams reports.
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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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Investigating Word Order Emergence: Constraints From Cognition and Communication
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 How do cognitive biases and mechanisms from learning and use interact when a system of language conventions emerges? We investigate this question by focusing on how transitive events are conveyed in silent gesture production and interaction.
Marieke Schouwstra +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Interceptive eavesdropping on the alarm calls of heterospecifics provides crucial information about predators. Previous research suggests predator discrimination, call relevance, reliability, and reception explain when eavesdropping will evolve. However,
Cameron Rouse Turner +2 more
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