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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, Klimova Galina Vladimirovna, Smakhtin Evgeniy Sergeevich, Amurskaya Marina Aleksandrovna, Rozhina Ekaterina Yurievna   +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, Nicolas Claidière, Joël Fagot, Kenny Smith   +3 more
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The Seeds of the Noun–Verb Distinction in the Manual Modality: Improvisation and Interaction in the Emergence of Grammatical Categories

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, Kathryn Montemurro, Natasha Abner, Molly Flaherty, Simon Kirby, Susan Goldin-Meadow   +5 more
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Restrictions on biological adaptation in language evolution

, 2009
Language acquisition and processing are governed by genetic constraints. A crucial unresolved question is how far these genetic constraints have co-evolved with language, perhaps resulting in a highly specialized, and species-specific language “module”;
Reali, F., Reali, Florencia, Christiansen, Morten H., Chater, N., Christiansen, M.H., Chater, Nick   +5 more
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Category-specific and system-wide preferences in competition: Evidence from noun phrase harmony

Glossa Psycholinguistics
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, Jennifer Culbertson, Simon Kirby   +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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How mobile robots can self-organise a vocabulary [PDF]

, 2015
One of the hardest problems in science is the symbol grounding problem, a question that has intrigued philosophers and linguists for more than a century. With the rise of artificial intelligence, the question has become very actual, especially within the
Vogt, Paul
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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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Historical phonology of Mataguayan

This book discusses the phonological history of Mataguayan, a language family that includes no less than four distinct languages – Maká, Nivaĉle, Chorote, and Wichí – spoken by ca.
Nikulin, Andrey, Carol, Javier
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Cultural Evolution of Language [PDF]

, 2013
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Dediu, Dan, Cysouw, Michael, Levinson, Stephen C., Baronchelli, Andrea, Christiansen, Morten, Croft, William, Evans, Nicholas, Garrod, Simon, Gray, Russell, Kandler, Anne, Lieven, Elena   +10 more
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