Language Evolution and Computation Bibliography

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Proceedings :: Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
2002
A Unified Model for the Origins of Phonemically Coded Syllable SystemsPDF
Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2002
Abstract Human sound systems are invariably phonemically coded, which means that there are parts of syllables that are re-used in other syllables. It is one of the most primitive compositional system in language. To explain this phenomenon, there existed so far three ...
Evolution of Gender in Indo-European LanguagesPDF
Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2002
Abstract In a recent paper, Lera Boroditsky and Lauren A. Schmidt (2000) examined the degree to which the linguistic category of grammatical gender of nouns influences people's perception of the cognitive category of biological gender, or sex. Their conclusion was that ...
Putting Geometry and Function Together - Towards a Psychologically-Plausible Computational Model for Spatial Language Comprehension
Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2002