Human languages vary widely in how they encode information within circumscribed
semantic domains (for example, time, space, colour, human body parts and activities), but …

The underlying structures that are common to the world's languages bear an intriguing
connection with early emerging forms of “core knowledge”(Spelke & Kinzler, 2007), which …

Languages emerge and change over time at the population level though interactions
between individual speakers. It is, however, hard to directly observe how a single speaker's …

Recent theoretical work in developmental psychology suggests that humans are
predisposed to align their mental states with those of other individuals. One way this …

The recent proliferation of digital databases of cultural and linguistic data, together with new
statistical techniques becoming available has lead to a rise in so-called nomothetic studies …

The extent to which larger populations enhance cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) is
contentious. We report a large-scale experiment (n= 543) that investigates the CCE of …

The prevalence of redundancy in the world languages has long puzzled language
researchers. It is especially surprising in light of the growing evidence on speakers' …

Howard Pattee is a physicist who for many years has taken his own path in studying the
physics of symbols, which is now a foundation for biosemiotics. By extending von …

In this work, our goal is to train agents that can coordinate with seen, unseen as well as
human partners in a multi-agent communication environment involving natural language …

Many people speak more than two languages. How do languages acquired earlier affect the
learnability of additional languages? We show that linguistic distances between speakers' …