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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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Osteogenesis and neurogenesis: a robust link also for language evolution [PDF]
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2015 Cedric eBoeckx +2 more
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On the evolution of the language of nephrology
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 2021 It is no exaggeration to state that the ICD has been one of the best examples of international collaboration in developing an authoritative tool in the service of medical discourse worldwide. It has endowed the language of medicine with a uniformity that is deficient or lacking in other disciplines.
Garabed, Eknoyan +2 more
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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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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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Experimental evidence for the influence of structure and meaning on linear order in the noun phrase
Glossa, 2020 Recent work has used artificial language experiments to argue that hierarchical representations drive learners’ expectations about word order in complex noun phrases like these two green cars (Culbertson & Adger 2014; Martin, Ratitamkul, et al. 2019).
Alexander Martin +4 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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Agent-based modelling using naming game for language evolution studies [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 The article describes approaches to applying agent-based modelling and, particularly, the case of Naming Game, in linguistic studies and within teaching foreign languages.
Ilyinsky Alexander Ioilyevich +4 more
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