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| Panel of Reviewers |
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Is Grammaticalization Glossogenetic? |
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3 | (8) |
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Mythology and the Evolution of Language |
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11 | (8) |
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Symmetrical Artefacts, Internal Reward and Language Precursors in the Head |
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19 | (7) |
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Linguistic Adaptation at Work? The Change of Word Order and Case System from Latin to the Romance Languages |
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26 | (8) |
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Invariants and Variation in Biology and Language Evolution |
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34 | (8) |
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42 | (8) |
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Cultural Ratcheting Results Primarily from Semantic Compression |
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50 | (8) |
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Iterated Learning of Multiple Languages from Multiple Teachers |
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58 | (8) |
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On Protolinguistic `Fossils': Subject-Verb vs. Verb-Subject Structures |
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66 | (8) |
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Numerosity, Abstraction, and the Emergence of Metaphor in Language |
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74 | (9) |
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Self-Organization and Emergence in Language, a Case Study for Color |
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83 | (8) |
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Prosodic Features in Northern Muriquis Vocalizations |
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91 | (8) |
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Have You Anything Unexpected to Say? The Human Propensity to Communicate Surprise and Its Role in the Emergence of Language |
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99 | (8) |
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The Innateness of Languages: a View from Genetics |
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107 | (9) |
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A New Theory of Language and its Implications for the Question of Evolution |
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116 | (6) |
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Horizontal Transmission of Call Features in Killer Whale Dialects |
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122 | (7) |
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Information and Influence in Animal Communication |
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129 | (8) |
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A Molecular Genetic Framwork for Testing Hypotheses about Language Evoluation |
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137 | (8) |
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Emergence of Aktionsarten: The First Step towards Aspect |
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145 | (8) |
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Talking About Birds, Bees, and Primates Too. Implications for Language Evolution |
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153 | (7) |
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The Effect of Social Popularrities on Linguistic Categorization |
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160 | (8) |
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Exploring the Roles of Major Forms of Cultural Transmission in Language Evolution |
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168 | (8) |
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How to Identify the Units, Levels and Mechanisms of Language Evolution |
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176 | (8) |
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Linguistic Analogy for Creativity and the Origin of Language |
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184 | (8) |
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Applications of the Price Equation to Language Evolution |
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192 | (6) |
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Interplay between Language, Navigation and Kin Selection |
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198 | (8) |
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Children Learn Sound Symbolic Words Better: Evolutionary Vestige of Sound Symbolic Protolanguage |
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206 | (8) |
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A Sensorimotor Characterisation of Syntax, and its Implications for Models of Language Evolution |
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214 | (8) |
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222 | (8) |
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Linguistic Arguments Probably Antedate Linguistic Predicates |
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230 | (8) |
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Towards a Simulation Model of Dialogical Alignment |
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238 | (8) |
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Evolution of Grammatical Forms |
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246 | (8) |
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The Silence of the Stones: On the Archaeological Record for (Neandertal) Language |
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254 | (9) |
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Minimum Description Length and Generalization in the Evolution of Language |
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263 | (8) |
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Thoughts on Evolution of Language from the Point of View of Brain Neuroanatomy and Development, and Object-Oriented Programming |
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271 | (8) |
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The Evolution of Segmentation and Sequencing: Evidence from Homesign and Nicaraguan Sign Language |
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279 | (10) |
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Exploring the Nature of a Systematicity Bias: an Experimental Study |
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289 | (8) |
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Open-Ended Semantics Co-Evolving with Spatial Language |
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297 | (8) |
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Lost in a Linguistic Jungle: What's in the Language Faculty? |
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305 | (8) |
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The Role of Practice and Literacy in the Evolution of Linguistic Structure |
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313 | (8) |
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Acquisition Preferences for Negative Concord |
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321 | (8) |
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The Predicability Tree. How, and Why? |
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329 | (7) |
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Strategy Competition in the Evolution of Pronouns: A Case-Study of Spanish Leismo, Laismo and Loismo |
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336 | (8) |
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Priming Through Constructional Dependencies: A Case Study in Fluid Construction Grammar |
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344 | (8) |
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The Moving Target Argument and the Speed of Evolution |
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352 | (11) |
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What is Special About the Language Faculty, and How Did It Get That Way? |
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363 | (2) |
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On the Origin of Universal Categorization Patterns: An In-Silica Experiment |
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365 | (2) |
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Coordination of Language Strategies based on Communicative Fitness |
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367 | (2) |
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Samplers, Maximisers and the Cultural Evolutionary Dynamics of Language |
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369 | (2) |
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Acoustic Variability in Nonhuman Primates: Individuality and Social Context |
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371 | (2) |
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Contexts of Language Diversity |
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373 | (2) |
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Coordinated Multi-Modal Expression and Embodied Meaning in the Emergence of Symbolic Communication |
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375 | (2) |
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Do Ape Gestures Have Specific Meanings? Shifting the Focus from Flexibility to Semanticity |
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377 | (2) |
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Brains, Genes and Language Evolution |
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379 | (2) |
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Could Evo-devo Save Chomsky from the Evolutionary Paradox? |
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381 | (2) |
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Gestural Communication in Human Children: Ontogenetic Perspective in Favour of the Gestural Hypothesis of Language Origin |
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383 | (2) |
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The Path from Point A to Point B: How Gestures Became Language in Nicaraguan Signing |
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385 | (2) |
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The Emergence of Structure from Sequence Memory Constraints in Cultural Transmission |
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387 | (2) |
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Cross-modality: Reviving Iconicity in the Evolution of Language |
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389 | (2) |
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Squiggle: Large-Scale Social Emergence of Simple Symbols |
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391 | (2) |
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Using Software Agents to Investigate the Interactive Origins of Communication Systems |
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393 | (2) |
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The Perceptual Effect of Air Sacs |
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395 | (2) |
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The Influence of Language on Concept Formation in Artificial Agents |
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397 | (2) |
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Recreating Duality of Patterning in the Laboratory: A New Experimental Paradigm for Studying Emergence of Sublexical Structure |
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399 | (2) |
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From Hand to Mouth: An Experimental Simulation of Language Origin |
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401 | (2) |
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Does Input Matter?: Gesture and Homesign in Nicaragua, China, Turkey, and the USA |
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403 | (2) |
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Deception, Tells, and the Evolution of Combinatorial Communication |
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405 | (2) |
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The Evolution of Semantics: a Meeting of Minds |
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407 | (4) |
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Does Dentis Precede Vocabulary Development in Language-Trained Apes? |
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411 | (2) |
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Why Ape-Human Similarities and Learning Mechanisms Are Important: A Developmental and Cladistic Approach to the Evolution of Language |
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413 | (3) |
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Evolving Linguistic Competence in the Absence of Performance |
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416 | (3) |
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Simulating Creole and Dialect Formation |
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419 | (2) |
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Ecological and Sexual Explanations for Larynx Lowering |
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421 | (2) |
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Observing the Birth of Phonology |
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423 | (2) |
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Relaxation of Selection Can Lead to Signal Variations: An Example in Birdsong |
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425 | (2) |
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The Co-Involvement of Hands and Mouth in Utterance Construction: Implications for Language Origins Theories |
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427 | (2) |
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Relationship Between Iconic Gestures and Sound Symbolic Words: Evidence for Multimodal Protolanguage |
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429 | (2) |
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Cooperative Breeding Models: Implications for the Evolution of Language |
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431 | (2) |
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Contributions of Aphasiology to Language Evolution Research |
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433 | (2) |
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How Important Are Words for Conceptual Coordination? |
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435 | (2) |
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Vocal Abilities in a Group of Nonhuman Primates |
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437 | (2) |
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Vocal Deception From a Hunter-Gatherer Perspective |
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439 | (2) |
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The Emergence Of Self-Organization In Language: Evidence From English Word Formation |
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441 | (2) |
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Beyond Communication: Language Modulates Visual Processing |
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443 | (2) |
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Declaratives in Apes: Impact of Environment on Purely Infomative Communications |
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445 | (2) |
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Languages As Evolutionary Aggregates |
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447 | (2) |
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3D-Morphometric and Acoustic Analysis of Chimpanzee and Human Vocal Tracts, and Their Use in the Reconstruction of Neanderthal Vocal Tracts and Their Acoustic Potential |
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449 | (2) |
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The Cultural Evolution of Language in a World of Continuous Meanings |
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451 | (2) |
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Investigation of Gestural vs. Vocal Origins of Language in Nonhuman Primates: Distinguishing Comprehension and Production of Signals |
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453 | (2) |
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The Interaction of Animacy and Word Order in Human Languages: A Study of Strategies in a Novel-Communication Task |
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455 | (2) |
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On the Track of the Origin of Language: A Comparative Study Quantifying Hand Preference in Object Manipulation and Gestural Communication in Non Human Primates |
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457 | (2) |
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A Functional Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound Study of Brain Lateralisation in Stone Tool Making and Language |
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459 | (2) |
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The Evolution of Information Structure |
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461 | (2) |
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A Missing Link in the Cultural Evolution of Language: Connecting Sequential Learning and Language Empirically |
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463 | (2) |
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Balancing Arbitrariness and Systematieity in Language Evolution |
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465 | (2) |
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Speaker-Independent Perception of Human Speech by Zebra Finches |
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467 | (2) |
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Caroline A.A. van Heijningen |
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An Avian Model for Language Evolution |
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469 | (2) |
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Grooming Gestures of Chimpanzees in the Wild: First Insights Into Meaning and Function |
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471 | (2) |
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The Relevance of the Developmental Stress Hypothesis to the Evolution of Language |
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473 | (2) |
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Co-Evolution of Language and Social Network Structure through Cultural Transmission |
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475 | (2) |
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The Origins of Sociolinguistic Marking and its Role in Language Divergence: an Experimental Study |
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477 | (2) |
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Considering Language Evolution from Birdsong Development |
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479 | (2) |
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Semantic Bootstrapping of Grammar in Embodied Robots |
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481 | (2) |
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Why Do Wild Chimpanzees Produce Food-Associated Calls: A Case of Vocal Grooming? |
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483 | (2) |
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The Importance of Exploring Non-Linguistic Functions of Human Brain Language Areas for Explaining Language Evolution |
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485 | (2) |
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Language Evolution: The View from Adult Second Language Learners |
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487 | (2) |
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The Evolution of Communication and Relevance |
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489 | (2) |
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Pragmatics Not Semantics As the Basis for Clause Structure |
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491 | (2) |
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Production Of The Vowels /a, i, u/Based on an Articulatory Model of Feeding |
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493 | (2) |
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Vocal Or Gestural? What Empirical Comparative Evidence Can and Cannot Currently Tell Us about Language Evolution |
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495 | (2) |
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Regularisation of Unpredictable Variation Through Itertated Learning |
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497 | (2) |
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Implausibly Cooperative Robots Meet Their Selfish Gene Counterparts |
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499 | (2) |
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Identifying Selective Pressures in Language Evolution: Polya Urns and the Price Equation |
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501 | (2) |
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What Are The Analogues of Genotype and Phenotype in the Cultural Evolution of Language? |
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503 | (2) |
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Acoustic Potential For Reference-Like Communication in Wild Indris |
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505 | (2) |
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Simple Rules Can Explain Discrimination of Putative Recursive Syntactic Structures by Songbirds: a Case Study on Zebra Finches |
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507 | (2) |
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Caroline A.A. van Heijningen |
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The Critical Period and Preservation of Emerged Vowel Systems |
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509 | (2) |
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Simulations of Socio-Linguistic Change: Implications for Unidirectionality |
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511 | (2) |
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Lessons for Evolution from First Language Development |
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513 | (2) |
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The Relevance of Body Language to Evolution of Language Research |
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515 | (2) |
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Vocal and Facial Productions in Nonhuman Primates: Do They Express Emotions or Language Related Treatments? |
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517 | (2) |
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Language As Extended Phenotype? |
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519 | (2) |
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Reconsidering the Code Model of Communication for Simulations of Language Evolution |
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521 | (2) |
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Cultural Evolution of Bird Song and Genetic Degradation of Learning Bias |
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523 | (2) |
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Optimality and Teleomatic Causes in the Faculty of Language |
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525 | (2) |
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From Body to Mouth (and Body) |
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527 | (2) |
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