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Evolutionary linguistics

The Biological Origin of Linguistic Diversity

Andrea Baronchelli, Nick Chater, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Morten H. Christiansen

The Neurophysiology of Language Processing Shapes the Evolution of Grammar: Evidence from Case Marking

Balthasar Bickel, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, [ ... ], Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky

Cooperation, Norms, and Revolutions: A Unified Game-Theoretical Approach

Dirk Helbing, Anders Johansson

Some Structural Aspects of Language Are More Stable than Others: A Comparison of Seven Methods

Dan Dediu, Michael Cysouw

Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics (DiACL)—A database for ancient language typology

Gerd Carling, Filip Larsson, [ ... ], Rob Verhoeven

Rank Diversity of Languages: Generic Behavior in Computational Linguistics

Germinal Cocho, Jorge Flores, [ ... ], Sergio Sánchez

The Cultural Evolution of Human Communication Systems in Different Sized Populations: Usability Trumps Learnability

Nicolas Fay, T. Mark Ellison

Joint action aesthetics

Staci Vicary, Matthias Sperling, [ ... ], Guido Orgs

A Sketch of Language History in the Korean Peninsula

Sean Lee

The Evolution of the Exponent of Zipf's Law in Language Ontogeny

Jaume Baixeries, Brita Elvevåg, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho

Sound Symbolism Facilitates Word Learning in 14-Month-Olds

Mutsumi Imai, Michiko Miyazaki, [ ... ], Sotaro Kita

At Grammatical Faculty of Language, Flies Outsmart Men

Ruedi Stoop, Patrick Nüesch, Ralph Lukas Stoop, Leonid A. Bunimovich

Using lexical language models to detect borrowings in monolingual wordlists

John E. Miller, Tiago Tresoldi, [ ... ], Johann-Mattis List

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