The evolution of language out of pre-language

By T. Givón, Bertram F. Malle. 2002

156 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cultural Studies, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d134e7cd040e0aa3c4f8000d5db624691777943d

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In Cultural Studies

1. N. Chater
2. Morten H. Christiansen
3. Vsevolod Kapatsinski

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Morten H. Christiansen
2. N. Chater
3. Vsevolod Kapatsinski

Citations in the corpus

• Conspiring to Mean: Experimental and Computational Evidence for a Usage-Based Harmonic Approach to Morphophonology (2013, background): “…one perseverates on a chunk (e.g. saying [buk bukt ʃ i] or [buk buki] increases the weight of ‘[k]!’ among other chunks, and saying [bup bupi] increases the weight of ‘[p]!’) and decreases whenever one has to replace the chunk with something else in production (e.g. saying [buk but ʃ i] reduces…”
• Language as shaped by the brain. (2008, background): “Thus, although constructions are selected independently, they also provide an environment for each other within which selection takes place, just as the selection of individual genes are tied to the survival of the other genes that make up an organism.”