A new book argues that child care drove the evolution of human speech. If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have ...

The study of language evolution and learning addresses the complex interplay between cultural dynamics and biological predispositions in shaping human communication. Researchers employ ...

Languages evolve over time, but does that mean they are getting simpler? While it's easy to think that languages are becoming ...

A unified theory of the lexicon and the mind: Researchers find common cognitive foundation for child language development and language evolution ...

The words "mama", "cookie", and "paper" might seem innocuous and common enough, but they share a linguistic quality that's statistically rare within the world's collective lexicon: They all contain a ...

The new data collection, and the automatically computed language features will contribute to new insights into open questions on linguistic diversity and language evolution.

Explore the evolutionary dynamics of language and how word usage frequency influences verb regularization rates and lexical evolution.

The new Language Velocity Field (LVF) method is helpful in tracing dispersion patterns of languages across the world.

How can we experiment in the area of language evolution? While it is impossible to study our extinct early ancestors, a new study sought important experimental clues in children with language ...

Noam Chomsky recently appeared on the Skeptically Speaking podcast to discuss the evolution of language. This got me thinking about the relationship, or lack thereof, between 'scepticism', 'new ...

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