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Evolutionary linguistics

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

Balthasar Bickel, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Kamal K. Choudhary, Matthias Schlesewsky, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky

published 12 Aug 2015

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A Sketch of Language History in the Korean Peninsula

Sean Lee

published 29 May 2015

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

Andrea Baronchelli, Vittorio Loreto, Andrea Puglisi

published 27 May 2015

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Rank Diversity of Languages: Generic Behavior in Computational Linguistics

Germinal Cocho, Jorge Flores, Carlos Gershenson, Carlos Pineda, Sergio Sánchez

published 07 Apr 2015

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Sound Symbolism Facilitates Word Learning in 14-Month-Olds

Mutsumi Imai, Michiko Miyazaki, H. Henny Yeung, Shohei Hidaka, Katerina Kantartzis, Hiroyuki Okada, Sotaro Kita

published 19 Feb 2015

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

Reuben Ng, Heather G. Allore, Mark Trentalange, Joan K. Monin, Becca R. Levy

published 12 Feb 2015

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Diffusion of Lexical Change in Social Media

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

published 19 Nov 2014

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Books Average Previous Decade of Economic Misery

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

published 08 Jan 2014

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

Natalie Thaïs Uomini, Georg Friedrich Meyer

published 30 Aug 2013

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At Grammatical Faculty of Language, Flies Outsmart Men

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

published 23 Aug 2013

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

Nicolas Fay, T. Mark Ellison

published 15 Aug 2013

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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, Kim J. J. M. Nouwen, Eva Topelberg, Roberto A. Delgado, Berry M. Spruijt, Elisabeth H. M. Sterck, Cheryl D. Knott, Serge A. Wich

published 05 Jul 2013

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Evolution of the Ainu Language in Space and Time

Sean Lee, Toshikazu Hasegawa

published 26 Apr 2013

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