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Evolutionary linguistics

Sequence Memory Constraints Give Rise to Language-Like Structure through Iterated Learning

Hannah Cornish, Rick Dale, Simon Kirby, Morten H. Christiansen

How does language change as a lexical network? An investigation based on written Chinese word co-occurrence networks

Heng Chen, Xinying Chen, Haitao Liu

Studying Language Change Using Price Equation and Pólya-urn Dynamics

Tao Gong, Lan Shuai, Mónica Tamariz, Gerhard Jäger

Comparison of ancient and modern Chinese based on complex weighted networks

Xinru Cui, Jinxu Qi, Hao Tan, Feng Chen

Neologisms are epidemic: Modeling the life cycle of neologisms in China 2008-2016

Menghan Jiang, Xiang Ying Shen, Kathleen Ahrens, Chu-Ren Huang

Human Infants and Baboons Show the Same Pattern of Handedness for a Communicative Gesture

Helene Meunier, Jacques Vauclair, Jacqueline Fagard

BEASTling: A software tool for linguistic phylogenetics using BEAST 2

Luke Maurits, Robert Forkel, Gereon A. Kaiping, Quentin D. Atkinson

Population-Specific Use of the Same Tool-Assisted Alarm Call between Two Wild Orangutan Populations (Pongopygmaeus wurmbii) Indicates Functional Arbitrariness

Adriano R. Lameira, Madeleine E. Hardus, [ ... ], Serge A. Wich

Does communication help people coordinate?

Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Zlatko Joveski, Sixie Yu

Neural Dynamics of Learning Sound—Action Associations

Adam McNamara, Giovanni Buccino, [ ... ], Ferdinand Binkofski

No Language-Specific Activation during Linguistic Processing of Observed Actions

Ingo G. Meister, Marco Iacoboni

Individual Biases, Cultural Evolution, and the Statistical Nature of Language Universals: The Case of Colour Naming Systems

Andrea Baronchelli, Vittorio Loreto, Andrea Puglisi

The natural selection of words: Finding the features of fitness

Peter D. Turney, Saif M. Mohammad

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