Recent theoretical work in developmental psychology suggests that humans are
predisposed to align their mental states with those of other individuals. One way this …

It is well established that context plays a fundamental role in how we learn and use
language. Here we explore how context links short-term language use with the long-term …

Recent work has studied the emergence of language among deep reinforcement learning
agents that must collaborate to solve a task. Of particular interest are the factors that cause …

In recent years, there has been a growing consensus that speakers store large numbers of
preconstructed phrases and low-level patterns, even when these can be derived from more …

It has been proposed that languages evolve by adapting to the perceptual and cognitive
constraints of the human brain, developing, in the course of cultural transmission, structural …

Variationist/evolutionary models of phonology assume a causal chain that links biases at the
utterance level to the development and consolidation of abstract phonological patterns over …

Previous research by Kirby et al. has found that strikingly compositional language systems
can be developed in the laboratory via iterated learning of an artificial language. However …

Recent work suggests that cultural transmission can lead to the emergence of linguistic
structure as speakers' weak individual biases become amplified through iterated learning …

Cross-linguistic differences in morphological complexity could have important
consequences for language learning. Specifically, it is often assumed that languages with …

Anybody who reads or writes Chinese characters knows that they obey a grammar of sorts:
though numerous, they are built out of a much smaller set of constituents, often interpretable …