The field of linguistics concerns itself with understanding the human capacity for language.
Compositionality is a key notion in this research tradition. Compositionality refers to the …

The rapid growth of cultural evolutionary science, its expansion into numerous fields, its use
of diverse methods, and several conceptual problems have outpaced corollary …

Like biological species, words in language must compete to survive. Previously, it has been
shown that language changes in response to cognitive constraints and over time becomes …

This study focuses on inter-individual convergence effects in the perception and
categorization of speech sounds. We ask to what extent two listeners can come to establish …

This paper presents a scientometric study of the evolution of evolutionary linguistics, a
multidisciplinary field that investigates the origin and evolution of language. We apply …

Applying the theory of memetics to music offers the prospect of reconciling general
Darwinian principles with the style and structure of music. The nature of the units of cultural …

Research on language evolution is an established subject area yet permeated by
terminological controversies about which topics should be considered pertinent to the field …

In an era characterized by the rapid expansion of online information and the widespread
dissemination of misinformation, automated fact-checking has emerged as an essential area …

We investigate the phenomenon of colexification, where a sin-gle wordform is associated
with multiple meanings. Previ-ous research on colexification has primarily focused on em …

By studying communicative interactions between humans, we can investigate the basic
processes underlying the evolution of language, including how humans manage to …