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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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Do rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) attribute knowledge and ignorance to others
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Aural Pattern Recognition Experiments and the Subregular Hierarchy
James Rogers,Geoffrey K. Pullum +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that experiments directed at distinguishing capabilities with respect to the Subregular Hierarchy, which subdivides the class of Regular stringsets, are likely to provide better evidence about the distinctions between the cognitive mechanisms of humans and those of other species.
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Arboreal clambering and the evolution of self-conception.
TL;DR: It is proposed that the capacity for self-conception envolved as a psychological mechanims enabling large-bodied, highly arboreal apes to cope with problems posed by the need to negotiate their way through a habitat that was fragile due to their body size.