Understanding worldwide patterns of language diversity has long been a goal for
evolutionary scientists, linguists and philosophers. Research over the past decade has …

We introduce KiloGram, a resource for studying abstract visual reasoning in humans and
machines. Drawing on the history of tangram puzzles as stimuli in cognitive science, we …

Many domains of inquiry in psychology are concerned with rich and complex phenomena. At
the same time, the field of psychology is grappling with how to improve research practices to …

What are the cognitive consequences of having a name for something? Having a word for a
feature makes it easier to communicate about a set of exemplars belonging to the same …

Traditionally, many researchers have supported a uniformitarian view whereby all
languages are of roughly equal complexity, facilitated by internal trade-offs between …

Colexification refers to the phenomenon of multiple meanings sharing one word in a
language. Cross‐linguistic lexification patterns have been shown to be largely predictable …

Languages spoken in larger populations are relatively simple. A possible explanation for
this is that languages with a greater number of speakers tend to also be those with higher …

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

It is often claimed that languages with more non-native speakers tend to become
morphologically simpler, presumably because non-native speakers learn the language …

Research on language complexity has been abundant and manifold in the past two
decades. Within typology, it has to a very large extent been motivated by the question of …