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The Evolution of Language
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The authors exploit newly available massive natu- ral language corpora to capture the language as a language evolution phenomenon. But their work is limited to a subset of the languages in the corpus.About:
This article is published in New Scientist.The article was published on 2010-04-01. It has received 826 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biolinguistics.read more
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Tool-use-associated sound in the evolution of language
TL;DR: It is hypothesized that the production and perception of sound, particularly of incidental sound of locomotion (ISOL) and tool-use sound (TUS), also contributed to the evolution of musical abilities, auditory working memory, and abilities to produce complex vocalizations and to mimic natural sounds.
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Lenneberg’s Views on Language Development and Evolution and Their Relevance for Modern Biolinguistics
Cedric Boeckx,Víctor M. Longa +1 more
TL;DR: Categorization helps to unify tokens of a concept which can greatly vary from each other, in such a way that an organism “somehow perceives relations of unity between objects that in superficial detail appear quite different”.
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Co-evolution of language and agents in referential games
TL;DR: This work empirically shows that the optimal situation is to take into account also the learning biases of the language learners and thus let language and agents co-evolve, and introduces Language Transmission Simulator to model both cultural and architectural evolution in a population of agents.
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Imitating Sounds: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding Vocal Imitation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that sound imitation capacities may have evolved in certain mammals, such as cetaceans and humans, to enhance both the perception of ongoing actions and the prediction of future events, rather than to facilitate mate attraction or the formation of social bonds.
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What is duality of patterning, anyway?
TL;DR: Of all the design features discussed by Hockett, DoP seems to have engendered the most confusion, but many complications arise when the authors look more closely, and the goal of this short paper is to document the complications and perhaps alleviate some of the confusion.
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The Evolution of Cooperation
TL;DR: In this paper, a model based on the concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy in the context of the Prisoner's Dilemma game was developed for cooperation in organisms, and the results of a computer tournament showed how cooperation based on reciprocity can get started in an asocial world, can thrive while interacting with a wide range of other strategies, and can resist invasion once fully established.
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The magical number seven plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing information
TL;DR: The theory provides us with a yardstick for calibrating the authors' stimulus materials and for measuring the performance of their subjects, and the concepts and measures provided by the theory provide a quantitative way of getting at some of these questions.
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Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilities
TL;DR: A model of a system having a large number of simple equivalent components, based on aspects of neurobiology but readily adapted to integrated circuits, produces a content-addressable memory which correctly yields an entire memory from any subpart of sufficient size.
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Deterministic nonperiodic flow
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that nonperiodic solutions are ordinarily unstable with respect to small modifications, so that slightly differing initial states can evolve into considerably different states, and systems with bounded solutions are shown to possess bounded numerical solutions.
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The mathematical theory of communication
Claude E. Shannon,Warren Weaver +1 more
TL;DR: The Mathematical Theory of Communication (MTOC) as discussed by the authors was originally published as a paper on communication theory more than fifty years ago and has since gone through four hardcover and sixteen paperback printings.