Language Evolution and Computation Bibliography

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Journal :: Journal of Economic Growth
2012
The roots of ethnic diversity
Journal of Economic Growth, pages 1--32, 2012
Abstract The level of ethnic diversity is believed to have significant consequences for economic and political development within countries. In this article, we provide a theoretical and empirical analysis of the determinants of ethnolinguistic diversity in the world. We ...
2008
Journal of Economic Growth 13(4):293-313, 2008
We propose a paleoeconomic coevolutionary explanation for the origin of speech in modern humans. The coevolutionary process, in which trade facilitates speech and speech facilitates trade, gives rise to multiple stable trajectories. While a `trade-speech' equilibrium is not an ...MORE ⇓
We propose a paleoeconomic coevolutionary explanation for the origin of speech in modern humans. The coevolutionary process, in which trade facilitates speech and speech facilitates trade, gives rise to multiple stable trajectories. While a `trade-speech' equilibrium is not an inevitable outcome for modern humans, we find it is a relatively likely scenario given our species evolved in Africa under climatic conditions supporting relatively high population densities. The origin of human speech is not independent of economic institutions-the economics of early human trade can provide additional insight to help explain the physiological emergence of human speech.