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Curating global datasets of structural linguistic features for independence

open access: yesScientific Data
The increasing availability of cross-linguistic databases dedicated to documenting morphosyntactic, lexical and phonological features has proliferated the use of such data for studies on language evolution and human history.
Anna Graff   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

How much conversation content is actually social: human conversational behaviour revisited

open access: yesLanguage and Cognition
Our study explores aspects of human conversation within the framework of evolutionary psychology, focusing on the proportion of ‘social’ to ‘non-social’ content in casual conversation. Building upon the seminal study by Dunbar et al. (1997, Human Nature,
Anna Szala   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evolution as a language that speaks itself [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The 'self-referential' character of evolutionary process noted by Goldenfeld and Woese (2010) can be restated through a 'language' model in which genes, gene expression, and environment are represented as interacting information ...
Rodrick Wallace
core   +1 more source

Preferences of Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Control Endpoints: A Mixed Methods Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The relation between language and theory of mind in development and evolution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Considering the close relation between language and theory of mind in development and their tight connection in social behavior, it is no big leap to claim that the two capacities have been related in evolution as well.
Malle, Bertram F.
core   +1 more source

Proactive Empirical Assessment of New Language Feature Adoption via Automated Refactoring: The Case of Java 8 Default Methods

open access: yes, 2018
Programming languages and platforms improve over time, sometimes resulting in new language features that offer many benefits. However, despite these benefits, developers may not always be willing to adopt them in their projects for various reasons.
Khatchadourian, Raffi   +1 more
core   +3 more sources

The evolution of language [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1999
The emergence of language was a defining moment in the evolution of modern humans. It was an innovation that changed radically the character of human society. Here, we provide an approach to language evolution based on evolutionary game theory. We explore the ways in which protolanguages can evolve in a nonlinguistic society and how specific signals ...
M A, Nowak, D C, Krakauer
openaire   +2 more sources

Pediatric Oncology Nursing Competencies in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Scoping Review to Inform Practice, Education, and Research

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Nurses are central to cancer care for children and adolescents, yet no comprehensive synthesis has defined essential core competencies for pediatric oncology nursing (PON) practice internationally, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Luís Carlos Lopes‐Júnior   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Did language give us numbers? : Symbolic thinking and the emergence of systematic numerical cognition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
What role does language play in the development of numerical cognition? In the present paper I argue that the evolution of symbolic thinking (as a basis for language) laid the grounds for the emergence of a systematic concept of number.
Wiese, Heike
core  

Cosmological Complexity

open access: yes, 2020
We compute the quantum circuit complexity of the evolution of scalar curvature perturbations on expanding backgrounds, using the language of squeezed vacuum states.
Bhattacharyya, Arpan   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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