Despite an explosion of research in the affective sciences during the last few decades,
interdisciplinary theories of human emotions are lacking. Here we present a neurobiological …

This paper proposes a systems approach to the theory of perception and learning in
populations composed of many living entities. Starting from a phenomenological description …

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

During the last three decades, scientists in formal and natural sciences have been
proposing models of language competition. Such models could prove instrumental in …

Computational modeling plays an essential role in the study of language emergence. It aims
to simulate the conditions and learning processes that could trigger the emergence of a …

Natural language is a complex adaptive system with multiple levels. The hierarchical
structure may have much to do with the complexity of language. Dependency Distance has …

Languages behave similarly to living species. They display diversity, differentiate in space
and time, emerge and disappear. While processes of differentiation happen at a relatively …

Although experimental methods are used in the study of language change, it has been
claimed that there is no analogue of the biologist's Drosophila–no means, in other words, of …

Human language provides a highly efficient communication system, which emerged due to
cultural interactions. To understand this still mysterious process, various interdisciplinary …

We demonstrate a substantial evidence that the word length can be an essential lexical
structural feature for word evolution in written Chinese. The data used in this study are …