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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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Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness
TL;DR: This revised and expanded version of Donald Griffin's book moves beyond considerations of animal cognition to argue that scientists should and can investigate questions of animal consciousness.
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Natural languages and context-free languages
TL;DR: The question of when the human languages purely as sets of strings of words (henceforth stringsets) fall within the class called context-free languages (CFL’s) is taken up, and it is shown that it is still open.
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Orangutans Modify Their Gestural Signaling According to Their Audience's Comprehension
TL;DR: This investigation investigated whether captive orangutans would use analogous communicative strategies in signaling to a human experimenter, and whether they could distinguish different degrees of misunderstanding, and how well they had apparently been understood.
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The evolution of bipedality and loss of functional body hair in hominids
TL;DR: It is argued that the lower direct solar radiation fluxes incident upon a bipedal mammal made possible the reduction of body hair, and explains the absence of this characteristic among savannah quadrupeds.