The concept of cultural evolution was fundamental to the foundation of academic musicology
and the subfield of comparative musicology, but largely disappeared from discussion after …

Racialized students are overrepresented in special-and English-learner education programs
in the United States. Researchers have pointed to implicit bias in evaluation tools and …

INTRODUCTION Human speech manifests itself in spectacular diversity, ranging from
ubiquitous sounds such as “m” and “a” to the rare click consonants in some languages of …

This book provides a unique, up-to-date survey of individual Uralic languages and sub-
grou**s from Finnish to Selkup. Spoken by more than 25 million native speakers, the …

According to the popular Grounded Cognition Model (GCM), the sensory and motor features
of concepts, including word meanings, are stored directly within neural systems for …

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …

Transfer learning based on pretraining language models on a large amount of raw data has
become a new norm to reach state-of-the-art performance in NLP. Still, it remains unclear …

essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of
perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing …

When adults learn new languages, their speech often remains noticeably non-native even
after years of exposure. These non-native variants ('accents') can have far-reaching socio …

What causes cultural groups to favour specific conventions over others? Recently, it has
been suggested that cross-linguistic variation can be motivated by factors of the wider non …