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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 Effects of Deep-Reaching Lesions in the Cortical Face Area on Phonation a Combined Case Report and Experimental Monkey Study
TL;DR: The present study compares the phonatory ability of a patient with a deep-reaching left-sided lesion in the region of the cortical face area with that of two squirrel monkeys in which the patient's lesion has been reduplicated bilaterally.
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Inheritance of Song Parameters in the Gibbon Song, Analysed in 2 Hybrid Gibbons (Hylobates pileatus × H. lar)
TL;DR: Comparison with thesong of both parental species revealed that at least some of the hybrid’s song characteristics were inherited, and attention is drawn to similarities between the song of the hybrids and gibbon species other than the parental ones, and their significance is considered.
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Acquisition of a relative class concept by an African gray parrot (Psittacus erithacus): discriminations based on relative size.
TL;DR: An African gray parrot, Alex, responds to stimuli on a relative basis and after learning to respond to a small set of exemplars on the basis of relative size, transferred this behavior to novel situations that did not provide specific information about the absolute values of the stimuli.
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The evolution of music in comparative perspective.
TL;DR: Darwin's model of a songlike musical “protolanguage” is concluded, which is consistent with much of the available evidence concerning the evolution of both music and language, and there is a rich future for empirical investigations of the Evolution of music.
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Asymmetries of the Brains and Skulls of Nonhuman Primates
TL;DR: The present study reviews the cerebral and cranial asymmetries that have been reported in the past and also presents some new findings made on endocranial casts of a number of nonhuman primate skulls.