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Language Evolution and the Baldwin Effect [PDF]
Recently, a new constructive approach characterized by the use of computational models for simulating the evolution of language has emerged. This paper investigates the interaction between the two adaptation processes in different time scales, evolution ...
有田, 隆也 +4 more
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Investigating Word Order Emergence: Constraints From Cognition and Communication
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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Probability matching is not the default decision making strategy in human and non-human primates
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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Category-specific and system-wide preferences in competition: Evidence from noun phrase harmony
Typological 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?
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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Language evolution puzzle [PDF]
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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Cultural Evolution of Language [PDF]
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Dediu, Dan +10 more
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ABSTRACT Background Adolescents with high‐risk cancer face complex developmental, psychosocial, and ethical challenges that extend beyond disease‐directed treatment. Although international recommendations exist for communication, psychosocial care, pediatric palliative care, survivorship, and shared decision‐making, these have largely evolved within ...
Johanna M. C. Blom +15 more
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ABSTRACT Background Loneliness is associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes and remains understudied in children and adolescents undergoing cancer therapy. Pediatric oncology patients may be at increased risk due to medical isolation and disruption of social networks.
Charlotte N. Stahlfeld +5 more
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