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When iconicity stands in the way of abbreviation: No Zipfian effect for figurative signals

Helena Miton, Olivier Morin

The acceptability judgment of Chinese pseudo-modifiers with and without a sentential context

Tao Gong, Lan Shuai, Yicheng Wu

Nonlinear diversification rates of linguistic phylogenies over the Holocene

Marcus J. Hamilton, Robert S. Walker

Cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound symbolism in novel words elicited by locomotion videos in Japanese and English

Noburo Saji, Kimi Akita, [ ... ], Mutsumi Imai

Evaluating the ability of citizen scientists to identify bumblebee (Bombus) species

Steven Falk, Gemma Foster, [ ... ], Barbara Smith

“I can’t read and don’t understand”: Health literacy and health messaging about folic acid for neural tube defect prevention in a migrant population on the Myanmar-Thailand border

Mary Ellen Gilder, Pru Moo, [ ... ], Rose McGready

Complexity-entropy analysis at different levels of organisation in written language

Ernesto Estevez-Rams, Ania Mesa-Rodriguez, Daniel Estevez-Moya

Do gestures retain mental associations with their iconic origins, even after they become emblematic? An analysis of the middle-finger gesture among American English speakers

Benjamin K. Bergen

"Someone told me": Preemptive reputation protection in communication

Francesca Giardini, Stanka A. Fitneva, Anne Tamm

Development and validation of the Japanese Moral Foundations Dictionary

Akiko Matsuo, Kazutoshi Sasahara, Yasuhiro Taguchi, Minoru Karasawa

Graphemic-phonetic diachronic linguistic invariance of the frequency and of the Index of Coincidence as cryptanalytic tools

Vicente Jara Vera, Carmen Sánchez Ávila

Mandarin Chinese modality exclusivity norms

I-Hsuan Chen, Qingqing Zhao, [ ... ], Chu-Ren Huang

The impact of bilingualism on executive functions and working memory in young adults

Eneko Antón, Manuel Carreiras, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia

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