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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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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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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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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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Probability matching is not the default decision making strategy in human and non-human primates
Scientific Reports, 2022 Probability matching has long been taken as a prime example of irrational behaviour in human decision making; however, its nature and uniqueness in the animal world is still much debated.
Carmen Saldana +3 more
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Languages, 2022 The noun–verb distinction has long been considered a fundamental property of human language, and has been found in some form even in the earliest stages of language emergence, including homesign and the early generations of emerging sign languages.
Yasamin Motamedi +5 more
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Category-specific and system-wide preferences in competition: Evidence from noun phrase harmony
Glossa PsycholinguisticsTypological data show a tendency for languages to exhibit harmonic (i.e., consistent) ordering between heads and dependents. Previous experimental work using artificial language learning experiments has shown that learners prefer harmonic patterns.
Annie Holtz +2 more
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Is Reduced Visual Processing the Price of Language?
Brain Sciences, 2022 We suggest a later timeline for full language capabilities in Homo sapiens, placing the emergence of language over 200,000 years after the emergence of our species. The late Paleolithic period saw several significant changes.
Christer Johansson, Per Olav Folgerø
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