Humans weave phonological patterns instinctively. We form phonological patterns at birth,
we spontaneously generate them de novo, and we impose phonological design on both our …

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 …

We survey recent computer modelling research of language evolution, focusing on a rule-
based model simulating the lexicon–syntax coevolution and an equation-based model …

This book puts cognition back at the heart of the language learning process and challenges
the idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic …

Joint attention (JA) is important to many social, communicative activities, including language,
and humans exhibit a considerably high level of JA compared with non-human primates. We …

Abstract The Cayo Santiago rhesus macaque colony represents one of the most important
nonhuman primate resources since their introduction to the Caribbean area in 1938. The 85 …

The biases of individual language learners act to determine the learnability and cultural
stability of languages: learners come to the language learning task with biases which make …

The issue of language foundations has been of great controversy ever since it was first
raised in Lenneberg's (1967) monograph Biological Foundations of Language. Based on a …

This paper reviews arguments against the evolutionary plausibility of a traditional genetically
specified universal grammar. We argue that no such universal grammar could have evolved …

Two computer simulations are investigated that model interaction of cultural evolution of
language and biological evolution of adaptations to language. Both are agent‐based …