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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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Origins of the Modern Mind
TL;DR: Corballis and Donald as discussed by the authors discuss the role of language in human behaviour and conclude that the use of signs is of limited value to apes since signs do not provide the open-ended system of description that humans find so useful.
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The supplementary motor area of the cerebral cortex; a clinical and experimental study.
Wilder Penfield,Keasley Welch +1 more
TL;DR: An analysis of observations on the properties of the superior and mesial intermediate precentral cortex in man and the patterns of focal seizures due to discharge in the area are presented, and an attempt is made to interpret the findings in terms of function.
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Experimental Determination of Stone Tool Uses: A Microwear Analysis
TL;DR: Keeley et al. as mentioned in this paper found that there was a high correlation between the detailed appearance of microwear polishes formed on tool edges and the general category of material worked by that edge.
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Primate Communication and the Gestural Origin of Language
TL;DR: This article argued that a preexisting gestural language system would have provided an easier pathway to vocal language than a direct outgrowth of the "emotional" use of vocalization characteristic of nonhuman primates.
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The evolution of reciprocity in sizable groups
Robert Boyd,Peter J. Richerson +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the conditions that allow the evolution of reciprocal cooperation become extremely restrictive as group size increases, and reciprocal altruism is likely to evolve when social interactions involve more individuals.