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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 form and function of post-conflict interactions between female baboons
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed the form and function of reconciliation between free-ranging female baboons, Papio cynocephalus ursinus, in the Okavango Delta of Botswana.
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Inheritance of stereotyped gibbon calls.
TL;DR: It is found that in female hybrids, the patterns of the loud and stereotyped ‘great-calls’ show no evidence of learning from parents, and appear to be under strong genetic control.
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Symbol and Structure: A Comprehensive Framework for Language Evolution
TL;DR: An overall framework is proposed that would dissociate the symbolic element of language (words) from the structural element (syntax), since the two probably have distinct sources.
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The fallacy of conventional signalling
TL;DR: The reliability of signals which display symmetry, as is measured by the 'fluctuating asymmetry', is interpreted as a consequence of the investment required of signals that coordinate development.
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Female Song Attracts Males in the Alpine Accentor Prunella collaris
TL;DR: This study provides the first evidence that female song in birds attracts males and suggests that it has evolved in alpine accentors because both sexes compete intensively for mates in the polygynandrous groups.