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Reflections on language evolution: From minimalism to pluralism [PDF]
, 2021 This essay reflects on the fact that as we learn more about the biological underpinnings of our language faculty, the dominant evolutionary narrative coming out of the linguistic tradition most explicitly oriented towards biology ("biolinguistics ...
Boeckx, Cedric; Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies
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The evolution of case grammar [PDF]
, 2016 There are few linguistic phenomena that have seduced linguists so skillfully as grammatical case has done. Ever since Panini (4th Century BC), case has claimed a central role in linguistic theory and continues to do so today.
van Trijp, Remi +3 more
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A complex systems perspective on language evolution [PDF]
Language is acknowledged as a complex adaptive system, but its implications from a modelingperspective remain largely under-explored. This paper explores the application of complex systems theory, as formalized by Thurner, Hanel, and Klimek in their book,
Michaud, Jérôme, Michaud, Jérôme,
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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 grounded spatial language [PDF]
, 2016 This book presents groundbreaking robotic experiments on how and why spatial language evolves. It provides detailed explanations of the origins of spatial conceptualization strategies, spatial categories, landmark systems and spatial grammar by tracing ...
Spranger, Michael
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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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