The evolutionary linguist's divining-rod: restrictive theory by Botha, Rudolf P.

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Relevant and Possible Contributions of the Instinctive Theory of Language inherent to Biolinguistics and Pinker's Evolutionary Linguistics for the Programmatic Field of Psycholinguistics Research by Pablo Silva de Almeida Machel-Nabot

“…This article discusses how the instinctive theory of language postulated by Pinker (2002), under the precepts of Biolinguistics (MEADER & MUYSKENS, 1950/1962) and of Evolutionary Linguistics based on the Evolutionary Theory of Natural Selection (Darwin 1859/2003), can contribute to the theoretical-methodological development of Psycholinguistics (OSGOOD & SEBEOK, 1954) regarding its academic-scientific inquiries and how it can also favor - in less extension and range nowadays, however in more coverage capacity in next times - in the inventory and description of psycholinguistics phenomena underlying cognitive activity, as well as at a detailed explanation of cognitive principles inherent to exercise of faculty of language through linguistic communication performed by human beings throughout solid, biological and organic foundation. …”
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Pointing and the Evolution of Language: An Applied Evolutionary Epistemological Approach by Nathalie Gontier

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Arie Verhagen. 2021. Ten Lectures on Cognitive Evolutionary Linguistics (Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics 24). Leiden, London: Brill. 218 pp. by Pleyer Michael

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Incidental Biology: A Reply to Derek Bickerton's Response by Sergio Balari, Guillermo Lorenzo

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The Place of Universal Grammar in the Study of Language and Mind: A Response to Dabrowska (2015) by Boxell Oliver

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Constructing a Consensus on Language Evolution? Convergences and Differences Between Biolinguistic and Usage-Based Approaches by Michael Pleyer, Stefan Hartmann

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Recursive Combination Has Adaptability in Diversifiability of Production and Material Culture by Genta Toya, Takashi Hashimoto

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A contemporary look at language origins by Sławomir Wacewicz

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The adaptive significance of human language: Function, form and social evolution by Oesch, NT

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Language in Language Evolution Research by Slawomir Wacewicz, Przemyslaw Zywiczynski, Stefan Hartmann, Michael Pleyer, Antonio Benítez-Burraco

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Using more native-like language acquisition processes in the foreign language classroom by Kieran Green

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Linguistics and evolution : a developmental approach / by Andresen, Julie Tetel, 1950- author

“…"Evolutionary linguistics - an approach to language study that takes into account our origins and development as a species - has rapidly developed in recent years. …”

Biblical Hebrew Wayyiqtol: A Dynamic Definition by Alexander Andrason

“…A concise, non-reductionist and non-taxonomist synchronically valid definition of the Biblical Hebrew wayyiqtol is based on findings of evolutionary linguistics and panchronic methodology. The author demonstrates the following: all semantic and functional properties (such as taxis, aspectual, temporal, modal and discourse-pragmatic values) of the wayyiqtol may be unified and rationalized as a single dynamic category: advanced portions of the anterior and simultaneous trajectories developed within the three temporal spheres and, additionally, contextualized by the incorporation of an originally independent lexeme with a coordinative-consecutive force.…”
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Hagen Replies to Hirschfeld (2008) by L. Kirk Hagen

“…Hirschfeld's (2008) thoughtful comments on my article on the bilingual brain are a valuable contribution to what I find to be an exciting and fruitful interdisciplinary investigation in evolutionary linguistics. I think his reply will help us flesh out both the biological and the environmental forces that have led to the human endowment for language. …”
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Emergence of linguistic conventions in multi-agent reinforcement learning. by Dorota Lipowska, Adam Lipowski

“…Recently, emergence of signaling conventions, among which language is a prime example, draws a considerable interdisciplinary interest ranging from game theory, to robotics to evolutionary linguistics. Such a wide spectrum of research is based on much different assumptions and methodologies, but complexity of the problem precludes formulation of a unifying and commonly accepted explanation. …”
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Sequence Memory Constraints Give Rise to Language-Like Structure through Iterated Learning. by Hannah Cornish, Rick Dale, Simon Kirby, Morten H Christiansen

“…The origins of the sequential structure of language is a hotly debated topic in evolutionary linguistics. In this paper, we show that sets of sequences with language-like statistical properties can emerge from a process of cultural evolution under pressure from chunk-based memory constraints. …”
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Adaptive Communication: Languages with More Non-Native Speakers Tend to Have Fewer Word Forms. by Christian Bentz, Annemarie Verkerk, Douwe Kiela, Felix Hill, Paula Buttery

“…Explaining the diversity of languages across the world is one of the central aims of typological, historical, and evolutionary linguistics. We consider the effect of language contact-the number of non-native speakers a language has-on the way languages change and evolve. …”
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EMERGENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONTACT IDIOMS IN THE FRAME OF PHILOSOPHY OF GLOBAL EVOLUTIONISM by Petr G. Makuhin, Stepan S. Kalinin

“…In support of that hypothesis, both the general conceptions of some contemporary evolutionary linguists (in particular, D. Bickerton, W.T. …”
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Intra-linguistic Diglossia as a Special Kind of Folk Bilingualism on the Example of the Lechitic Languages by Jaroslaw Kobylko

“…The interaction of several varieties of the same national language may, on the one hand, affect the dominance of the state language over ethnolects, which may eventually lead to their disappearance, and on the other hand, due to the evolutionary linguistic and cultural proximity, contribute to their preservation. …”
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