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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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Modeling Language Evolution [PDF]
Foundations of Computational Mathematics, 2004 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Felipe Cucker +2 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 cultural evolution of language [PDF]
Current Opinion in Psychology, 2016 Human language has unusual structural properties that enable open-ended communication. In recent years, researchers have begun to appeal to cultural evolution to explain the emergence of these structural properties. A particularly fruitful approach to this kind of explanation has been the use of laboratory experiments.
Tamariz, Monica, Kirby, Simon
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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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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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Evolution of speech and evolution of language [PDF]
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2016 Speech is the physical signal used to convey spoken language. Because of its physical nature, speech is both easier to compare with other species' behaviors and easier to study in the fossil record than other aspects of language. Here I argue that convergent fossil evidence indicates adaptations for complex vocalizations at least as early as the common
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