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Evolutionary linguistics

How Does Word Length Evolve in Written Chinese?

Heng Chen, Junying Liang, Haitao Liu

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

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

A Sketch of Language History in the Korean Peninsula

Sean Lee

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

Andrea Baronchelli, Vittorio Loreto, Andrea Puglisi

Rank Diversity of Languages: Generic Behavior in Computational Linguistics

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

Sound Symbolism Facilitates Word Learning in 14-Month-Olds

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

Increasing Negativity of Age Stereotypes across 200 Years: Evidence from a Database of 400 Million Words

Reuben Ng, Heather G. Allore, [ ... ], Becca R. Levy

Diffusion of Lexical Change in Social Media

Jacob Eisenstein, Brendan O'Connor, Noah A. Smith, Eric P. Xing

Books Average Previous Decade of Economic Misery

R. Alexander Bentley, Alberto Acerbi, Paul Ormerod, Vasileios Lampos

Shared Brain Lateralization Patterns in Language and Acheulean Stone Tool Production: A Functional Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound Study

Natalie Thaïs Uomini, Georg Friedrich Meyer

At Grammatical Faculty of Language, Flies Outsmart Men

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

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

Nicolas Fay, T. Mark Ellison

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

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