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TransNewGuinea.org: An Online Database of New Guinea Languages

Simon J. Greenhill

Fingerspelling as a Novel Gateway into Reading Fluency in Deaf Bilinguals

Adam Stone, Geo Kartheiser, [ ... ], Thomas E. Allen

Zipf’s Law: Balancing Signal Usage Cost and Communication Efficiency

Christoph Salge, Nihat Ay, Daniel Polani, Mikhail Prokopenko

How Does Word Length Evolve in Written Chinese?

Heng Chen, Junying Liang, Haitao Liu

Iconicity in English and Spanish and Its Relation to Lexical Category and Age of Acquisition

Lynn K. Perry, Marcus Perlman, Gary Lupyan

Genetic Heritage of the Balto-Slavic Speaking Populations: A Synthesis of Autosomal, Mitochondrial and Y-Chromosomal Data

Alena Kushniarevich, Olga Utevska, [ ... ], Oleg Balanovsky

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

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

Are Autonomous and Controlled Motivations School-Subjects-Specific?

Julien Chanal, Frédéric Guay

Linguistic and Cultural Challenges in Communication and Translation in US-Sponsored HIV Prevention Research in Emerging Economies

Donna Hanrahan, Patrina Sexton, [ ... ], Robert Klitzman

Spatial Structure of Evolutionary Models of Dialects in Contact

Yugo Murawaki

Future Tense and Economic Decisions: Controlling for Cultural Evolution

Seán G. Roberts, James Winters, Keith Chen

Zipf’s Law for Word Frequencies: Word Forms versus Lemmas in Long Texts

Álvaro Corral, Gemma Boleda, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho

The Sound of Voice: Voice-Based Categorization of Speakers’ Sexual Orientation within and across Languages

Simone Sulpizio, Fabio Fasoli, [ ... ], Dominik Bentler

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