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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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Origin of symbol-using systems: speech, but not sign, without the semantic urge [PDF]
, 2014 Natural language—spoken and signed—is a multichannel phenomenon, involving facial and body expression, and voice and visual intonation that is often used in the service of a social urge to communicate meaning.
Alberts B +27 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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The Evolution of Language Groups among Cooperating Digital Predators [PDF]
, 2016 Many species of animals have evolved complex means for communicating with one another. Oftentimes, communication is essential for the execution of tasks that require cooperation between individuals, such as group hunting and mate selection.
Haley, Patrick B.
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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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Introduction to Microservice API Patterns (MAP) [PDF]
, 2020 The Microservice API Patterns (MAP) language and supporting website premiered under this name at Microservices 2019. MAP distills proven, platform- and technology-independent solutions to recurring (micro-)service design and interface specification ...
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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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Standardizing and destandardizing practices at a Flemish secondary school : a sociolinguistic ethnographic perspective on Flemish pupils’ speech practices [PDF]
, 2016 For a couple of decades now, in Flanders, the functional elaboration of what is generally called tussentaal, i.e. mesolectal language use situated in between (‘tussen’) acrolectal Standard Dutch and basilectal Flemish dialects, has caused increasing ...
Van Lancker, Inge
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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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