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Phonological Units in Spoken Word Production: Insights from Cantonese

Andus Wing-Kuen Wong, Jian Huang, Hsuan-Chih Chen

Implicit Learning of Recursive Context-Free Grammars

Martin Rohrmeier, Qiufang Fu, Zoltan Dienes

Abstract Profiles of Structural Stability Point to Universal Tendencies, Family-Specific Factors, and Ancient Connections between Languages

Dan Dediu, Stephen C. Levinson

Origin of the Words Denoting Some of the Most Ancient Old World Pulse Crops and Their Diversity in Modern European Languages

Aleksandar Mikić

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

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

Naming a Structured World: A Cultural Route to Duality of Patterning

Francesca Tria, Bruno Galantucci, Vittorio Loreto

The Role of Gender Information in Pronoun Resolution: Evidence from Chinese

Lijing Qiu, Tamara Y. Swaab, Hsuan-Chih Chen, Suiping Wang

The Impact of Social Disparity on Prefrontal Function in Childhood

Margaret A. Sheridan, Khaled Sarsour, [ ... ], W. Thomas Boyce

Cultural Phylogenetics of the Tupi Language Family in Lowland South America

Robert S. Walker, Søren Wichmann, Thomas Mailund, Curtis J. Atkisson

The Settlement of Madagascar: What Dialects and Languages Can Tell Us

Maurizio Serva

Circadian Patterns of Wikipedia Editorial Activity: A Demographic Analysis

Taha Yasseri, Robert Sumi, János Kertész

Does Lateral Transmission Obscure Inheritance in Hunter-Gatherer Languages?

Claire Bowern, Patience Epps, [ ... ], Jason Zentz

The Biological Basis of a Universal Constraint on Color Naming: Cone Contrasts and the Two-Way Categorization of Colors

Youping Xiao, Christopher Kavanau, Lauren Bertin, Ehud Kaplan

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