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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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The potential Neandertal vowel space was as large as that of modern humans
TL;DR: Using a new anthropomorphic articulatory model, it is inferred that the vowel space of the Neandertal male was no smaller than that of a modern human, and vowel simulations are presented to corroborate this hypothesis.
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Effects of dyadic vocal interactions on other conspecific receivers in nightingales
Marc Naguib,Dietmar Todt +1 more
TL;DR: Testing whether asymmetric interactions, in which one bird overlaps the song of another individual, influences the behaviour of additional, passive conspecific receivers, suggests that, even if song overlapping is a signal directed towards the singer whose song is overlapped, this information is perceived and used by additional receivers.
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Corticofugal projections to the motor nuclei of the brainstem and spinal cord in humans
TL;DR: Motoneurons in the brainstem motoruclei and spinal anterior horns seem to receive direct cortical projections, except for the oculomotor and abducens nuclei and Onuf s nucleus in the sacral cord.
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Comparative tests of primate cognition: different scaling methods produce different results.
TL;DR: Previous comparative studies are inconclusive and further research is needed to develop a scaling method where relative measures of brain structure size are demonstrated to correspond with behavioral performance, as well as allowing a distinction between social and ecological hypotheses.