Journal of Language Evolution

Combined lexical and phonotactic data resolve uncertainties in the evolutionary diversification of the Japonic language family Open Access

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A focus on vowels in young human infants and animals: early sensitivities in language processing Get access

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A sea of languages: predicting the number of languages per island group in Remote Oceania Open Access

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Cultural evolution via iterated learning and communication explains efficient color naming systems Open Access

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A phylogenetic study of South-Western Tibetic Open Access

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Unraveling the influence of essential climatic factors on the number of tones through an extensive database of languages in China Get access

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Language origins: a puzzle with a missing piece Get access

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Vocal functional flexibility in a nonprimate vocal learning species Get access

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Derivational morphology and suffixing bias on linguistic and nonlinguistic material Get access

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Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of pitch-accent systems based on accentual class merger: a new method applied to Japanese dialects Open Access

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The evolution of evolutionary linguistics Open Access

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Evolutionary pathways of complexity in gender systems Open Access

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Correction to: The scientometric landscape of Evolang: A comprehensive database of the Evolang conference Free

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Variation in phoneme inventories: quantifying the problem and improving comparability Open Access

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Evolution of Pantomime in Dyadic Interaction. A Motion Capture Study Get access

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Iconicity in the emergence of a phonological system? Open Access

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Constraints on communicating the order of events in stories through pantomime Get access

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Subgrouping in a ‘dialect continuum’: A Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of the Mixtecan language family Open Access

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The learnability and emergence of dependency structures in an artificial language Get access

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