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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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An integrated theory of language production and comprehension
Martin J. Pickering,Simon Garrod +1 more
TL;DR: It is asserted that producing and understanding are interwoven, and that this interweaving is what enables people to predict themselves and each other.
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The co-operative, transformative organization of human action and knowledge
TL;DR: In this article, a range of features that are central to the constitution of human action are discussed, including language structure, prosody, and visible embodied displays, and the accumulation and differentiation through time within local co-operative transformation zones of dense substrates.
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Modeling the cultural evolution of language
TL;DR: The main conclusion of the paper is that cultural evolution is a much more powerful process that usually assumed, implying that less innate structures or biases are required and consequently human language evolution has to rely less on genetic evolution.
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The bridge of iconicity: from a world of experience to the experience of language
TL;DR: This paper proposes an alternative framework in which iconicity in face-to-face communication is a powerful vehicle for bridging between language and human sensori-motor experience, and, as such, iconicity provides a key to understanding language evolution, development and processing.
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Function, Selection, and Innateness: The Emergence of Language Universals
TL;DR: The impact of processing on word order in Linguistics is discussed in this article, where Hierarchies and Competing Motivations are used to describe the limits of functional adaptation.
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Interspecies semantic communication in two forest primates.
TL;DR: Results showed that monkeys used the semantic information conveyed by the Campbell's alarm calls to predict the presence of a predator, consistent with the hypothesis that non–human primates are able to use acoustic signals of diverse origin as labels for underlying mental representations.
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Vocal tract length and acoustics of vocalization in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris).
Tobias Riede,T. Fitch +1 more
TL;DR: Because of the low correlation between vocal tract length and the first formant, it is predicted that a non-uniform vocal tract shape will be found, suggesting that formant dispersion can deliver information about the body size of the vocalizer.
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Audiometric notch as a sign of noise induced hearing loss.
David McBride,Sheila M. Williams +1 more
TL;DR: To diagnose NIHL it is important to elicit a detailed and accurate history of exposure to noise: although the notch at 4 kHz is a well established clinical sign and may be valuable in confirming the diagnosis, the 6 kHz notch is variable and of limited importance.
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Referential labelling in Diana monkeys.
TL;DR: Analysis of male and female alarm-call behaviour showed that Diana monkeys consistently responded to predator category regardless of immediate threat or direction of attack, and suggested that, in addition to predator categories, monkeys' alarm calls might also convey information about the predator's distance.