evolution of language

Linguistic correlates of societal variation: A quantitative analysis
Traditionally, many researchers have supported a uniformitarian view whereby all languages are of roughly equal complexity, facilitated …
Sihan Chen, David Gil, Sergey Gaponov, Jana Reifegerste, Tessa Yuditha, Tatiana Tatarinova, Ljiljana Progovac, Antonio Benítez-Burraco
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More complex societies have more complex kinship lexicons
Increasing evidence suggests that language complexity is sensitive to sociopolitical factors.While most quantitative research has …
Sihan Chen, David Gil, Antonio Benítez-Burraco
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The absence of a trade-off between morphological and syntactic complexity
The hypothesis that all languages are equally complex often invokes a trade-off principle, according to which if a language is more …
Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Sihan Chen, David Gil
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The effect of context on noisy-channel sentence comprehension
The process of sentence comprehension must allow for the possibility of noise in the input, e.g., from speaker error, listener …
Sihan Chen, Sarah Nathaniel, Rachel Ryskin, Edward Gibson
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Speech adapts to differences in dentition within and across populations
We test the hypothesis that a specific anatomical feature, the dental malocclusion associated with reduced dental wear, causes …
Caleb Everett, Sihan Chen
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Speech adapts to differences in dentition within and across populations
Did post-neolithic changes in bite configuration impact speech? A new approach to the question
Blasi et al. (2019) offer evidence that post-neolithic changes in bite configuration, owed to the adoption of agriculture, have led to …
Sihan Chen, Caleb Everett
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