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Adaptive Communication: Languages with More Non-Native Speakers Tend to Have Fewer Word Forms

Christian Bentz, Annemarie Verkerk, Douwe Kiela, Felix Hill, Paula Buttery

published 17 Jun 2015

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Speaker Input Variability Does Not Explain Why Larger Populations Have Simpler Languages

Mark Atkinson, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

published 09 Jun 2015

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A Comparison of Comprehension Processes in Sign Language Interpreter Videos with or without Captions

Matjaž Debevc, Danijela Milošević, Ines Kožuh

published 26 May 2015

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Does Formal Complexity Reflect Cognitive Complexity? Investigating Aspects of the Chomsky Hierarchy in an Artificial Language Learning Study

Birgit Öttl, Gerhard Jäger, Barbara Kaup

published 17 Apr 2015

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Modeling the Emergence of Contact Languages

Francesca Tria, Vito D.P. Servedio, Salikoko S. Mufwene, Vittorio Loreto

published 15 Apr 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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New Genetic and Linguistic Analyses Show Ancient Human Influence on Baobab Evolution and Distribution in Australia

Haripriya Rangan, Karen L. Bell, David A. Baum, Rachael Fowler, Patrick McConvell, Thomas Saunders, Stef Spronck, Christian A. Kull, Daniel J. Murphy

published 01 Apr 2015

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The Effect of Sign Language Structure on Complex Word Reading in Chinese Deaf Adolescents

Aitao Lu, Yanping Yu, Jiaxin Niu, John X. Zhang

published 23 Mar 2015

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Syntactic Priming in American Sign Language

Matthew L. Hall, Victor S. Ferreira, Rachel I. Mayberry

published 18 Mar 2015

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The Production of Nominal and Verbal Inflection in an Agglutinative Language: Evidence from Hungarian

Dezso Nemeth, Karolina Janacsek, Zsolt Turi, Agnes Lukacs, Don Peckham, Szilvia Szanka, Dorottya Gazso, Noemi Lovassy, Michael T. Ullman

published 13 Mar 2015

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Towards a Formal Genealogical Classification of the Lezgian Languages (North Caucasus): Testing Various Phylogenetic Methods on Lexical Data

Alexei Kassian

published 26 Feb 2015

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Conceptual Modeling of mRNA Decay Provokes New Hypotheses

Judith Somekh, Gal Haimovich, Adi Guterman, Dov Dori, Mordechai Choder

published 25 Sep 2014

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Rapoport's Rule Revisited: Geographical Distributions of Human Languages

Michael C. Gavin, John Richard Stepp

published 12 Sep 2014

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