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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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Modelling the Role of Pragmatic Plasticity in the Evolution of Linguistic Communication
TL;DR: A model of the cultural evolution of language is introduced that acknowledges and incorporates the fact that communication exhibits pragmatic plasticity and explores the explanatory potential of this fact with regard to language evolution.
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Q&A: What is human language, when did it evolve and why should we care?
TL;DR: A case can be made that language has played a more important role in the authors' species’ recent (circa last 200,000 years) evolution than have their genes.
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The blurred boundaries of functional reference: a response to Scarantino & Clay
Brandon C. Wheeler,Julia Fischer +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argued that all cases of animal communication in which receiver responses could be explained in terms of the information provided by the signal could be said to function referentially, and this applies to the entire spectrum of animal communications.
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Bipedal steps in the development of rhythmic behavior in humans
TL;DR: The apparent absence of musical and rhythmic abilities in nonhuman primates, which display little bipedal locomotion, corroborates that bipedAL gait may be linked to the development of rhythmic ability in humans.
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Evolutionary linguistics: theory of language in an interdisciplinary space
TL;DR: The authors revisited the key questions in current thinking in evolutionary linguistics, reviewed the alleged stages during language evolution, and evaluates the mainstream hypotheses on language emergence, namely innatism and emergentism.
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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.