Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals
By M. Dunn, Simon J. Greenhill, Stephen C. Levinson, R. Gray. Nature, 2011
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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics
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- Consequences of the Now-or-Never bottleneck for signed versus spoken languages (2015, background): “For example, computational phylogenetic analyses indicate that word order correlations are lineagespecific (Dunn et al. 2011), shaped by particular histories 14 BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES, 39 (2016) http://journals.cambridge.org Downloaded: 03 Jun 2016 IP address: 195.169.108.34 of cultural…”
- Grammar of protein domain architectures (2019, background): “…and yet unexplained observation is that all known natural languages possess a nearly constant relative entropy, which is a measure of entropy loss (information gain) between a text written in the given language following the strict rules of grammar and a random sequence of words (63 – 66).”
- Cultural Evolution: A Review of Theory, Findings and Controversies (2015, background): “…al. 2011; ReyesGarcia et al. 2009); phylogenetic studies that reconstruct the evolutionary relationships between languages (Bouckaert et al. 2012; Dunn et al. 2011; Pagel 2009), artefacts (Lipo et al. 2006; Lycett 2009; O’Brien et al. 2014; Tehrani and Collard 2002) and texts (Barbrook et al.…”