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Evolutionary linguistics

Evolution of the Ainu Language in Space and Time

Sean Lee, Toshikazu Hasegawa

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

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

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

Dan Dediu, Michael Cysouw

The Biological Origin of Linguistic Diversity

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

Role of Demographic Dynamics and Conflict in the Population-Area Relationship for Human Languages

Susanna C. Manrubia, Jacob B. Axelsen, Damián H. Zanette

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

Helene Meunier, Jacques Vauclair, Jacqueline Fagard

Studying Language Change Using Price Equation and Pólya-urn Dynamics

Tao Gong, Lan Shuai, Mónica Tamariz, Gerhard Jäger

Universal Entropy of Word Ordering Across Linguistic Families

Marcelo A. Montemurro, Damián H. Zanette

The Manipulative Complexity of Lower Paleolithic Stone Toolmaking

Aldo Faisal, Dietrich Stout, Jan Apel, Bruce Bradley

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

Dirk Helbing, Anders Johansson

Neural Dynamics of Learning Sound—Action Associations

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

Accelerated FoxP2 Evolution in Echolocating Bats

Gang Li, Jinhong Wang, [ ... ], Shuyi Zhang

No Language-Specific Activation during Linguistic Processing of Observed Actions

Ingo G. Meister, Marco Iacoboni

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