Music and language are both forms of communication universally observed across human
societies, prompting researchers to investigate why and how they evolved. Such research …

Data-driven research in phonetics and phonology relies massively on oral resources, and
access thereto. We propose to explore a question in comparative linguistics using an open …

Less-resourced languages are usually left out of phonetic studies based on large corpora.
We contribute to the recent efforts to fill this gap by assessing how to use open-access …

This paper reviews major bifurcating theories of language evolution, and summarizes recent
interdisciplinary investigations on language, its users, and sociocultural environments in …