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| Panel of Reviewers |
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Is Pointing the Root of the Foot? Grounding the ``Prosodic Word'' as a Pointing Word |
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3 | (7) |
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The Subcortical Foundations of Grammaticalization |
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10 | (8) |
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Pragmatics and Theory of Mind: A Problem Exportable of the Origins of Language |
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18 | (8) |
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Two Neglected Factors in Language Evolution |
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26 | (8) |
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Expressing Second Order Semantics and the Emergence of Recursion |
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34 | (8) |
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Unravelling the Evolution of Language with Help from the Giant Water Bug, Natterjack Toad and Horned Lizard |
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42 | (9) |
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Linguistic Adaptations for Resolving Ambiguity |
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51 | (8) |
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Modelling Language Competition: Bilingualism and Complex Social Networks |
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59 | (8) |
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Language, the Torque and the Speciation Event |
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67 | (8) |
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The Emergence of Compositionality, Hierarchy and Recursion in Peer-to-Peer Interactions |
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75 | (8) |
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Causal Correlations between Genes and Linguistic Features: The Mechanism of Gradual Language Evolution |
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83 | (8) |
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Spontaneous Narrative Behaviour in Homo Sapiens: How Does It Benefit Speakers? |
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91 | (8) |
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What do Modern Behaviours in Homo Sapiens Imply for the Evolution of Language? |
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99 | (8) |
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The Origins of Preferred Argument Structure |
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107 | (8) |
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Long-Distance Dependencies are not Uniquely Human |
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115 | (8) |
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How Much Grammar Does It Take to Sail a Boat? (Or, What can Material Artifacts Tell Us about the Evolution of Language?) |
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123 | (8) |
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The Role of Cultural Transmission in Intention Sharing |
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131 | (8) |
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The Role of Naming Game in Social Structure |
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139 | (8) |
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Do Individuals Preferences Determine Case Marking Systems? |
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147 | (8) |
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What Impact Do Learning Biases have on Linguistic Structures? |
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155 | (8) |
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Reanalysis vs Metaphor: What Grammaticalisation CAN Tell Us about Language Evolution |
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163 | (8) |
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Seeking Compositionality in Holistic Proto-Language without Substructure: Do Counter-Examples Overwhelm the Fractionation Process? |
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171 | (8) |
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Unravelling Digital Infinity |
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179 | (8) |
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Language Scaffolding as a Condition for Growth in Linguistic Complexity |
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187 | (8) |
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The Emergence of a Lexicon by Prototype-Categorising Agents in a Structured Infinite World |
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195 | (8) |
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Evolutionary Framework for the Language Faculty |
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203 | (8) |
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Artificial Symbol Systems in Dolphins and Apes: Analogous Communicative Evolution? |
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211 | (8) |
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The Adaptiveness of Metacommunicative Interaction in a Foraging Environment |
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219 | (8) |
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On the Impact of Community Structure on Self-Organizing Lexical Networks |
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227 | (8) |
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A Crucial Step in the Evolution of Syntactic Complexity |
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235 | (8) |
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Evolution of the Global Organization of the Lexicon |
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243 | (8) |
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251 | (8) |
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What Use is Half a Clause? |
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259 | (8) |
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The Formation, Generative Power, and Evolution of Toponyms: Grounding Vocabulary in a Cognitive Map |
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267 | (8) |
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On the Correct Application of Animal Signalling Theory to Human Communication |
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275 | (8) |
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Natural Selection for Communication Favours the Cultural Evolution of Linguistic Structure |
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283 | (8) |
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Syntax, a System of Efficient Growth |
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291 | (8) |
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Simple, but not too Simple: Learnability vs. Functionality in Language Evolution |
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299 | (8) |
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Kin Selection and Linguistic Complexity |
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307 | (8) |
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Regularity in Mappings Between Signals and Meanings |
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315 | (8) |
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Emergence of Sentence Types in Simulated Adaptive Agents |
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323 | (8) |
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Desperately Evolving Syntax |
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331 | (7) |
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Constraint-Based Compositional Semantics |
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338 | (8) |
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The Emergence of Semantic Roles in Fluid Construction Grammer |
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346 | (8) |
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Broadcast Transmission, Signal Secrecy and Gestural Primacy Hypothesis |
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354 | (8) |
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Self-Interested Agents can Bootstrap Symbolic Communication if They Punish Cheaters |
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362 | (8) |
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Coping with Combinatorial Uncertainty in Word Learning: A Flexible Usage-Based Model |
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370 | (8) |
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Removing `Mind-Reading' from the Iterated Learning Model |
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378 | (8) |
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How does Niche Construction in Learning Environment Trigger the Reverse Baldwin Effect? |
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386 | (11) |
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Coexisting Linguistic Conventions in Generalized Language Games |
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397 | (2) |
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Complex Systems Approach to Natural Categorization |
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399 | (2) |
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Regular Morphology as a Cultural Adaptation: Non-Uniform Frequency in an Experimental Iterated Learning Model |
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401 | (2) |
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Neural Dissociation between Vocal Production and Auditory Recognition Memory in Both Songbirds and Humans |
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403 | (2) |
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Discourse Without Symbols: Orangutans Communicate Strategically in Response to Recipient Understanding |
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405 | (2) |
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Taking Wittgenstein Seriously: Indicators of the Evolution of Language |
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407 | (2) |
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An Experiment Exploring Language Emergence: How to See the Invisible Hand and Why We Should |
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409 | (2) |
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The Syntax of Coordination and the Evolution of Syntax |
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411 | (2) |
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The Archaeology of Language Origin |
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413 | (2) |
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415 | (2) |
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How Complex Syntax Could Be |
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417 | (2) |
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The Multiple Stages of Protolanguage |
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419 | (2) |
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A Human Model of Color Term Evolution |
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421 | (2) |
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Evolution of Song Culture in the Zebra Finch |
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423 | (2) |
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Iterated Language Learning in Children |
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425 | (2) |
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Gesture, Speech and Language |
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427 | (2) |
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Introducing the Units and Levels of Evolution Debate into Evolutionary Linguistics |
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429 | (2) |
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What can the Study of Handedness in Nonhuman Apes Tell Us about the Evolution of Language? |
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431 | (2) |
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Unidirectional Meaning Change with Metaphoric and Metonymic Inferencing |
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433 | (2) |
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Recent Adaptive Evolution of Human Genes Related to Hearing |
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435 | (2) |
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Inhibition and Language: A Pre-Condition for Symbolic Communicative Behaviour |
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437 | (2) |
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Carlos Hernandez-Sacristan |
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Pragmatic Plasticity: A Pivotal Design Feature? |
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439 | (2) |
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Continuity between Non-Human Primates and Modern Humans? |
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441 | (2) |
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After all, a ``Leap'' is Necessary for the Emergence of Recursion in Human Language |
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443 | (2) |
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Labels and Recursion: From Adjunction-Syntax to Predicate-Argument Relations |
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445 | (2) |
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Iterated Learning with Selection: Convergence to Saturation |
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447 | (2) |
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A Reaction-Diffusion Approach to Modelling Language Competition |
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449 | (2) |
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Accent Over Race: The Role of Language in Guiding Children's Early Social Preferences |
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451 | (2) |
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Language, Culture and Biology: Does Language Evolve to be Passed on by Us. and Did Humans Evolve to Let that Happen? |
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453 | (3) |
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Three Issues in Modeling the Language Convergence Problem as a Multiagent Agreement Problem |
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456 | (2) |
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The Development of a Social Signal in Free-Ranging Chimpanzees |
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458 | (2) |
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Gestural Modes of Representation-A Multi-Disciplinary Approach |
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460 | (2) |
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Extracommunicative Functions of Language: Verbal Interference Causes Categorization Impairments |
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462 | (2) |
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Form-Meaning Compositionality Derives from Social and Conceptual Diversity |
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464 | (2) |
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466 | (2) |
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Origins of Communication in Autonomous Robots |
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468 | (2) |
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Handedness for Gestural Communication and Non-Communicative Actions in Chimpanzees and Baboons: Implications for Language Origins |
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470 | (2) |
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The Evolution of Hypothetical Reasoning: Intelligibility or Reliability? |
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472 | (2) |
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Simulation of Creolization by Evolutionary Dynamics |
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474 | (2) |
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Evolution of Phonological Complexity: Loss of Species-Specific Bias Leads to more Generalized Learnability in a Species of Songbirds |
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476 | (2) |
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Referential Gestures in Chimpanzees in the Wild: Precursors to Symbolic Communication? |
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478 | (2) |
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Modeling Language Emergence by Way of Working Memory |
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480 | (2) |
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Mechanistic Language Circuits: What Can be Learned? What is Pre-Wired? |
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482 | (3) |
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Reflections on the Invention and Reinvention of the Primate Playback Experiment |
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485 | (2) |
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An Experimental Approach to the Role of Freerider Avoidance in the Development of Linguistic Diversity |
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487 | (2) |
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Prosody and Linguistic complexity in an Emerging Language |
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489 | (2) |
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Communication, cooperation and Coherence Putting Mathematical Models into Perspective |
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491 | (2) |
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A Numerosity-Based Alarm Call System in King Colobus Monkeys |
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493 | (2) |
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On There and Then: From Object Permanence to Displaced Reference |
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495 | (2) |
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Signalling Signalhood and the Emergence of Communication |
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497 | (2) |
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Wild Chimpanzees Modify the Structure of Victim Screams According to Audience Composition |
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499 | (2) |
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An Experimental Study on the Role of Language in the Emergenece and Maintenance of Human Cooperation |
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501 | (2) |
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Replicator Dynamics of Language Processing |
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503 | (2) |
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Syntactical and Prosodic Cues in Song Segmentation Learning by Bengalese Finches |
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505 | (2) |
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Why the Transition to Cumulative Symbolic Culture is Rare |
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507 | (2) |
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A Gradual Path to Hierarchical Phrase-Structure: Insights from Modeling and Corpus-Data |
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509 | (2) |
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| Author Index |
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