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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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Signalling among Relatives. I. Is Costly Signalling Too Costly
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that despite the benefits associated with honest information transfer, the costs incurred in a stable costly signalling system may leave all participants worse off than they would be in a system with no signalling at all.
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Evolution of vertebrate colour vision.
Gerald H. Jacobs,Mickey P. Rowe +1 more
TL;DR: Accounts of the evolution of three classes of mechanism important for colour vision—photopigment opsins, oil droplets and retinal organisation—are offered and details of how colour vision has evolved among mammals and, more specifically, among primates are examined.
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Did our ancestors speak a holistic protolanguage
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors dissected the main ideas found in the holistic approach and argued on a number of grounds that it is conceptually and empirically flawed, in view of differences between primate vocalization and language.
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Timing in Free-Living Rufous Hummingbirds, Selasphorus rufus
TL;DR: This first time that this degree of timing ability has been shown in wild animals is shown, and hummingbirds exhibit two of the fundamental aspects of episodic-like memory, the kind of memory for specific events often thought to be exclusive to humans.
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The search for phonology in other species
TL;DR: There has been a burst of research in this area over the past five years, both in examining natural communication systems and in the laboratory, exposing animals to human language.