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Cross-Cultural Variation in the Noun Bias in Early Vocabulary Development: A Systematic Review. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract Children's early vocabularies have been observed to be predominated by nouns, particularly concrete and animate nouns. This phenomenon, known as the “noun bias,” is argued to reflect a universal conceptual advantage for concrete objects in early word learning, because such referents are perceived as bounded, individualized concepts that are ...
Zhang Y, Kim S, Casillas M.
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Biocultural diversity of common walnut (Juglans regia L.) and sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) across Eurasia. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2020 Little is known about how anthropogenic processes have affected the evolution of tree species with a long‐time‐scale history of human utilization such as common walnut (Juglans regia L.) and sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.). In this study, we evaluated the impact of isolation by distance processes, landscape heterogeneity, and cultural boundaries
Pollegioni P +10 more
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Word Order Variation is Partially Constrained by Syntactic Complexity. [PDF]
Cogn Sci, 2021 Abstract Previous work suggests that when speakers linearize syntactic structures, they place longer and more complex dependents further away from the head word to which they belong than shorter and simpler dependents, and that they do so with increasing rigidity the longer expressions get, for example, longer objects tend to be placed further away ...
Jing Y, Widmer P, Bickel B.
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Identification of Population Affinity Using Dental Traits: A Narrative Review in Forensic Odontology. [PDF]
Health Sci RepABSTRACT Background and Aim Forensic odontology utilizes dental morphology to estimate population affinity in medico‐legal cases. This review examines the role of dental traits in human identification, emphasizing their limitations in conclusively estimating ancestry or ethnicity.
Atreya A, Menezes RG, Bolla SR, Dahal S.
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Rhythm Across Species: Situating Human Speech in a Comparative Framework. [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad SciWe analyzed speech rhythms from 48 human languages using methods drawn from biology and linguistics. Interonset intervals across languages are surprisingly similar, with a median value of 2 seconds., despite substantial differences in linguistic structure and prosody. A comparative rhythm analysis shows that human speech falls within the range reported
Burchardt LS, Paschen L, Fuchs S.
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Mol Genet Genomic Med, 2020 The first batch of 23 autosomal STR profiles of Ha Hlai, one important branch of Hainan Li (Hlai), were obtained and reported by genotyping 657 Ha Hlai individuals (497 males and 160 females) utilizing the Huaxia™ Platinum PCR Amplification System.
Li W +14 more
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Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Volume 17, Issue 1, Page 61-94, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Research Summary Using a sample of 205,792 individuals in 70 countries with 39 languages, this paper presents novel empirical evidence for how a language's future time reference, defined as the requirement that speakers mark time in the future, affects a speaker's likelihood of engaging in social entrepreneurship. FTR subtly shapes a speaker's
Diana M. Hechavarría +3 more
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On locating Proto-Uralic [PDF]
, 2023 In recent years the debate regarding the Proto-Uralic homeland has again intensified. However, not all the relevant arguments have been considered thoroughly. Therefore, in the present article their validity and weight are evaluated.
Häkkinen, Jaakko
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Conventional sound symbolism in Uralic languages [PDF]
, 2021 A presentation on sound symbolism in Uralic languages.
Katja Heikkonen
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Location of the Uralic proto-language in the Kama River Valley and the Uralic speakers' Expansion east and west with the 'Sejma-Turbino transcultural phenomenon’ 2200-1900 BC [PDF]
, 2022 Volgo-Kama Neolithic resulted from an expansion of the Elshan culture to Lower Kama c. 5700 BCE. Corresponding “Indo-Uralic” linguistic parallels attest to an expansion of pre-Proto-Indo-European speakers to the area of pre-Proto-Uralic speakers.
Parpola, Asko, Asko Parpola
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