Cognitive science applies diverse tools and perspectives to study human language.
Recently, an exciting body of work has examined linguistic phenomena through the lens of …

The notion that the form of a word bears an arbitrary relation to its meaning accounts only
partly for the attested relations between form and meaning in the languages of the world …

Human cultural traits—behaviors, ideas, and technologies that can be learned from other
individuals—can exhibit complex patterns of transmission and evolution, and researchers …

Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

En cierta ocasión alguien me preguntó cuál era el principal objetivo de mi investigación:
conocer la lengua o conocer al ser humano. Recuerdo que, tras una breve reflexión, afirmé …

As one of the most specific, yet most diverse of human behaviors, language is shaped by
both genomic and extra-genomic evolution. Sharing methods and models between these …

This book addresses one of the most pervasive questions in historical linguistics–why
variation becomes stable rather than being eliminated–by revisiting the so far neglected …

Background Concerted evolution is normally used to describe parallel changes at different
sites in a genome, but it is also observed in languages where a specific phoneme changes …

The aim of this paper is to provide a sociophonetic perspective on debate relating to the role
of usage-based approaches in accounting for language variation. The bulk of the paper …