The quality of health care in Mesoamerica is influenced by its rich cultural diversity and
characterized by social inequalities. Especially indigenous and rural communities confront …

Music has been called “the universal language of mankind.” Although contemporary
theories of music evolution often invoke various musical universals, the existence of such …

Humans have been using language for millennia but have only just begun to scratch the
surface of what natural language can reveal about the mind. Here we propose that language …

Human foragers are obligately group-living, and their high dependence on mutual aid is
believed to have characterized our species' social evolution. It was therefore a central …

Recent advances in multilingual dependency parsing have brought the idea of a truly
universal parser closer to reality. However, cross-language interference and restrained …

Linguistic typology aims to capture structural and semantic variation across the world's
languages. A large-scale typology could provide excellent guidance for multilingual Natural …

We examine the formation and evolution of corporate risk culture, that is, the preferences
toward risk and uncertainty shared by a firm's leaders, as well as its effect on corporate …

The choice associated with words is a fundamental property of natural languages. It lies at
the heart of quantitative linguistics, computational linguistics and language sciences more …

Considerable progress in explaining cultural evolutionary dynamics has been made by
applying rigorous models from the natural sciences to historical and ethnographic …

For quite some time, the genealogical classification of African languages has been in a
peculiar situation, one which is linked intricably to Greenberg's (1963a) study. His work is …